The [varied] offerings of the world appear.

From each she nicely culls with [curious] toil,

And decks the goddess with the [glittering] spoil.

IMPORTANCE OF PUNCTUATION.

The following passage occurs in Marlowe’s Edward II.:—

Mortimer Jun.—This letter written by a friend of ours,

Contains his death, yet bids them save his life.

Edwardum occidere nolite timere, bonum est.

Fear not to kill the king, ’tis good he die.

But read it thus, and that’s another sense: