_Sonnet 10._ John Tyndale, born in 1484, and educated at Oxford. Determined to translate the Bible for England, as he could not do it safely in London he fled to the continent. At Cologne he published the English New Testament about 1525. England was filled with light. The popish priests sent over a traitor, by whose means Tyndale was seized and martyred near Antwerp Friday, Oct. 6, 1536, being strangled at the stake and burnt. His translation of the New Testament was the foundation of our present one. _Sonnet 13._ The four following ex-presidents were all living, when this sonnet was written in March, 1826.――_John Adams_ died July 4, 1826, aged 90; president from 1797 to 1801.――_Thomas Jefferson_ died on the same day with Mr. Adams, July 4, 1826, aged 83; president from 1801 to 1809. As a member of congress he drew up the declaration of Independence in 1776.――_James Madison_ died in 1836, aged 85; president from 1809 to 1817.――_James Monroe_ died July 4, 1831, aged 83; president from 1817 to 1825. _Sonnet 16._ In a sonnet Mr. _Wordsworth_ does not lament the protestant hurricane, which scattered wide "The trumpery, that ascends in bare display, Bulls, pardons, relics, cowls, black, white, and grey, Upwhirl'd――and flying o'er th' ethereal plain Fast bound for Limbo lake." _Sonnet 17._ Christ's own clear, ample, minute, most decisive instruction concerning the Day of Judgment is in Matt. 25th, and ends with the words, "And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal." He also said of the unbeliever, in John 3d, "he shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him:" he also said, Matt. 18, "It is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire." _Sonnet 20._ Shakespeare in a sonnet says,―― "When to the sessions of sweet, silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: Then can I drown an eye, unus'd to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,"