So serious should my youth appear among
The thoughtless throng,
So would I seem amid the young and gay
More grave than they,
That in my age as cheerful I might be
As the green winter of the Holly Tree.’—
[12]. In some Roman Catholic countries, pictures in part supplied the place of the translation of the Bible: and this dumb art arose in the silence of the written oracles.
[13]. See a Voyage to the Straits of Magellan, 1594.
[14]. .sp 1
‘The smiler with the knife under his cloke.’