“’T is even so!”

William Shakspeare.

“They must surely be rotten fragments of the world before the flood,—saved out of it by the devil.”

Sir Thomas.

“I am not of that mind.

“Their eyes, mayhap, fell upon some of the bravery cast ashore from the Spanish Armada. In ancienter days, a few pages of good poetry outvalued a whole ell of the finest Genoa.”

William Shakspeare.

“When will such days return?”

Sir Thomas.

“It is only within these few years that corruption and avarice have made such ghastly strides. They always did exist, but were gentler.