halls, and banquet-rooms. But a little while, and the

music is dull, the wine is unsipped, the footfalls abate,

the laughter ceases. Then from the window of this dwel- [10]

ling a face looks out, anxiously surveying him who waiteth

at the door.

Within this mortal mansion are adulterers, fornicators,

idolaters; drunkenness, witchcraft, variance, envy, emu-

lation, hatred, wrath, murder. Appetites and passions [15]

have so dimmed their sight that he alone who looks from

that dwelling, through the clearer pane of his own heart