With high applauding voice, that gain’d him high applause. } [2] The reader will perceive in these and the preceding verses allusions to the state of France, as that country was circumstanced some years since, rather than as it appears to be in the present date; several years elapsing between the alarm of the loyal magistrate on the occasion now related, and a subsequent event that farther illustrates the remark with which the narrative commences. TALE II. _THE PARTING HOUR._ I did not take my leave of him, but had Most pretty things to say: ere I could tell him How I would think of him, at certain hours, Such thoughts and such [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .] or ere I could Give him that parting kiss, which I had set Betwixt two charming words--comes in my father-- _Cymbeline_, Act I. Scene 3. Grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time’s deformèd hand Have written strange defeatures [in] my face. _Comedy of Errors_, Act V. Scene 1. Oh! if thou be the same [Ægeon], speak, And speak unto the same [Æmilia]. _Comedy of Errors_, Act V. Scene 1. I ran it through, ev’n from my boyish days To the very moment that [he bade] me tell it, Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents, by flood, and field; Of being taken by [the] insolent foe And sold to slavery. _Othello_, Act I. Scene 3. An old man, broken with the storms of [state], Is come to lay his weary bones among [ye]; Give him a little earth for charity. _Henry VIII._ Act IV. Scene 2. TALE II. _THE PARTING HOUR._