491
From drink, with its ruin, and sorrow and sin,
I surely am safe if I never begin.
492
Pray tell me whence you derive the origin of the word dun? The true origin of this expression owes its birth to one Joe Dunn, a famous bailiff of the town of Lincoln, England, so extremely active, and so dexterous at the management of his rough business, that it became a proverb, when a man refused to pay his debts, "Why don't you Dun him?" that is, why don't you send Dun to arrest him? Hence it grew a custom, and is now as old as since the days of Henry VII.
—Mulledulcia.
493
Knowledge is the hill which few may hope to climb;
Duty is the path that all may tread.
—Lewis Morris.
494
When a minister preaches his sermon, he should do so fearlessly, i. e. like a man who cuts up a big log,—let the chips fall where they may.