In the swan there is such
purity, such coldness is there in the element he inhabiteth, such
solitude of station, that verily he doth remind me of the Virgin
Queen herself. Of the heron I have less to say, not having him
about me; but I never heard his lordly croak without the conceit
that it resembled a chancellor's or a primate's.
"I do perceive, William Shakspeare, thy compunction and contrition."
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.
"I was thinking, may it please your worship, of the game-cock and
the goose, having but small notion of herons. This doctrine of
abduction, please your worship, hath been alway inculcated by the
soundest of our judges. Would they had spoken on other points with
the same clearness. How many unfortunates might thereby have been
saved from crossing the Cordilleras!" {72a}
SIR THOMAS.
"Ay, ay! they have been fain to fly the country at last, thither or
elsewhere."
And then did Sir Thomas call unto him Master Silas, and say, -
"Walk we into the bay-window. And thou mayest come, Ephraim."
And when we were there together, I, Master Silas, and his worship,
did his worship say unto the chaplain, but oftener looking toward
me, -
"I am not ashamed to avouch that it goeth against me to hang this
young fellow, richly as the offence in its own nature doth deserve
it, he talketh so reasonably; not indeed so reasonably, but so like
unto what a reasonable man may listen to and reflect on.
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