Perpetual circle, multiform, and mix

And nourish all things,’ etc.

Paradise Lost, V. 181–3.

‘What though the radiance which was once so bright,’ etc.

‘——Like to the Pontic sea,

Whose icy current and compulsive course

Ne’er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on

To the Propontic and the Hellespont!’

Othello, Act III. Scene 3.

“Why, Sir, you know no house,