No. XCI

The following diagram shows how the two ladies and their squires represented by white Knights and black, and dressed to impersonate Light, Liberty, Love, and Learning, started from the four comer squares, and stepped a figure which exhibited at each pause a revolving square, and in three paces came together in the centre, by a course traced upon the lines of their combined monograms.

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No. XCII

The 5 maxims in these 36 cells—

tellyou knowtellsknowstellshe should not
doyou think ofdoesthinks ofdoesis not good
believeyou hearbelieveshearsbelievesis false
spendyou havespendshasspendshe needs
judgeyou seejudgesseesjudgesis not there
neverallhe whoall heoftenwhat

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are disentangled by reading the lowest line with each of the upper ones in turn. Thus the first maxim runs:—“Never tell all you know, he who tells all he knows often tells what he should not,” and so on throughout.

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