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[144-1] And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land.

TENNYSON: _In Memoriam, xviii._

[144-2] A ministering angel thou.--SCOTT: _Marmion, canto vi. st. 30._

[145-1] But they that are above Have ends in everything.

BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _The Maid's Tragedy act v. sc. 4._

[147-1] The prince of darkness is a gentleman.--SUCKLING: _The Goblins._

[149-1] Though I be rude in speech.--_2 Cor. xi. 6._

[150-1] "These things to hear" in Singer.

[152-1] Though these lines are from an old ballad given in Percy's _Reliques_, they are much altered by Shakespeare, and it is his version we sing in the nursery.

[153-1] For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again.

_Venus and Adonis._

[153-2] "Fondly" in Singer and White; "soundly" in Staunton.

[155-1] CERVANTES: _Don Quixote,