Strength in like manner forsakes him; and Discretion says that “when Strength goeth before, he follows after ever more.” And Fyve-Wyttes, whom he took for his best friend, bid him, “farewell and then an end.” Every-man. O Jesu, helpe! all hath forsaken me! Good Dedes. Nay, Every-man, I wyll byde with the, I wyll not forsake the in dede; Thou shalt fynde me a good frende at nede. Knowledge also abides him till the last; the song of the Angel who receives his spirit is heard, and a Doctour concludes the piece with an application to the audience. This morall men may have in mynde, —forsake Pryde for he deceyveth you in the ende, And remembre Beaute, Fyve-Wyttes, Strength and Dyscrecyon They all at the last do Every-man forsake, Save his Good Dedes, these doth he take: But be ware, an they be small, Before God he hath no helpe at all! CHAPTER CCXXVII. SYSTEM OF PROGRESSION MARRED ONLY BY MAN'S INTERFERENCE.—THE DOCTOR SPEAKS SERIOUSLY AND HUMANELY AND QUOTES JUVENAL. MONTENEGRO. How now, are thy arrows feathered? VELASCO. Well enough for roving. MONTENEGRO. Shoot home then. SHIRLEY. It is only when Man interferes, that the system of progression which the All Father has established throughout the living and sentient world, is interrupted, and Man, our Philosopher would sorrowfully observe, has interrupted it, not only for himself, but for such of the inferior creatures as are under his controul. He has degraded the instincts of some, and in others, perhaps it may not be too much to say that he has corrupted that moral sense of which even the brute creation partakes in its degree; and has inoculated them with his own vices. Thus the decoy duck is made a traitor to her own species, and so are all those smaller birds which the bird-catcher trains to assist him in ensnaring others. The Rat, who is one of the bravest of created things, is in like manner rendered a villain.