"Bass. If it please you to dine with us! Shy. Yes, to smell pork, to eat of the habitation which your prophet, the Nazarite, conjured the devil into." --_Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice 1:3_. Do Men Gather Grapes of Thorns, or Figs of Thistles? 109 G.B. "Conceits himself as God that he can make Figs out of thistles." --_Tennyson, The Last Tournament_. Dust Thou Art, and unto Dust shalt Thou Return. 21 T.J. "Dust to dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came." --_Shelley, Adonais_. Earthly House. 452 S.A. "All the angels that inhabit this temple of the body appear at the windows, and all the gnomes and vices also." --_Emerson, Essay on Love_. Easier for a Camel to Go through the Eye of a Needle. 212 L.J. "It is as hard to come as for a camel To thread through the postern of a needle's eye." --_Shakespeare, Richard II 5:5_. Eat, Drink, and be Merry. 212 L.J. "I built myself a lordly pleasure house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell; I said, 'O soul, make merry and carouse, Dear soul, for all is well.'" --_Tennyson, The Palace of Art_. {137} Eden. 19 T.J. "He who is wearied of his village plain May roam the Edens of the world in vain." --_Holmes, Poetry_. Egyptian Taskmaster. 137 H.T. "Not a hard 'taskmaster,' ever on the watch to see that we are always at our brickmaking, but a Deliverer, who can bring us forth out of the 'land of bondage' and lead us through the wilderness of difficulty onward to the Promised Land." --_T. Campbell Finlayson_. The Everlasting Hills. 394 S.A. "Changeless march the stars above, Changeless morn succeeds to even; And the everlasting hills Changeless watch the changeless heaven." --_Kingsley, Saint's Tragedy_. Faith and Works. 428 S.A. "Wi' sappy unction, has he burkes The hopes O' men that trust in works." --_Stevenson, A Lowden Sabbath Morn_. The Fall of Jericho. 287 H.T. "Toppling down the walls of his own Jericho." --_Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia_. Fallen among Thieves. 88 L.J. "Certain only that he has been, and is, a Pilgrim and Traveler from a far Country; more or less footsore and travel-soiled; has parted with road companions; fallen among thieves," etc. --_Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, Chapter II_. Fed by Ravens. 114 T.J. "One was the Tishbite Whom the ravens fed." --_Tennyson, The Palace of Art_.