Let pilferers of the hoarded grain, To justice victims die; But injure not the harmless train That creep, or walk, or fly. Let them enjoy their little day, Their lowly bliss receive: O! do not lightly take away The life thou canst not give. ❦ [Sidenote: Mussulman.] The Mussulman law divides into two classes all the inhabitants of the earth: those who profess the faith of Mahomet are called, without distinction of rites, sects, &c. “_Musslem_,” which in Arabic signifies a person resigned to God, the dual of which is Mussulman. The nations who deny the divine mission, and reject the doctrine of the prophet, are confounded under the common denomination of “Keafid,” infidel, or blasphemer; a wretch wandering in darkness, whose eyes are shut to the light of revelation. Thus all infidels form but one people. ❦ _Matthias, Count Thurnes’, Address to the Feudal Nobles of Bohemia._ There remains now no room for repentance, and no plea for forgiveness. The die is thrown. We must embrace freedom or the scaffold: men of principle, if conquerors, men of conscience, and independent; but if overcome, poor, perfidious beings, perjured and rebellious traitors. ❦ [Sidenote: Sir Thomas More.] During his confinement in the Tower, Sir Thomas wrote the following lines on the wall of his prison chamber, with a coal, for ink he was not allowed. “Ey, flatterynge fortune, looke you never so fayre, Nor never so pleasantly begin to smyle, Although thou wouldst my ruynes all repayre, During my life thou shalt not me beguyle; Trust, I shall, God, to enter in a while Thye haven of heaven, sure and uniforme, Ever after thie calme, looke I for noe storme.” Of the several foreigners entertained and patronised by Sir Thomas More, Erasmus was the most esteemed: but he was irritated and offended by an epigram addressed to him from Holland, to which place Erasmus had taken a horse of Sir Thomas More’s, sent for the purpose of conveying him to the coast. ❦ [Sidenote: The Key to Happiness.]