from that dungeon whose warder is the Giant Despair. Yet I am consoled by thinking that the siege of Troy will be remembered when those of Vicksburg and Paris are forgotten. One of the old dramatists, Thomas Heywood, has, without meaning it, set down for us the uses of the poets:-- “They cover us with counsel to defend us From storms without; they polish us within With learning, knowledge, arts, and disciplines; All that is nought and vicious they sweep from us Like dust and cobwebs; our rooms concealed Hang with the costliest hangings ’bout the walls, Emblems and beauteous symbols pictured round.” Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced. Contractions using ’t, such as “’t is” were printed with a space separating the “’t” from the preceding or following word. Today, we omit the space (“’tis”), but since all of them were printed with the space in the original book, the space has been retained here.