1. The expectation of the wicked shall perish.—_Bible._
2. When ye come where I have stepped,
Ye will wonder why ye wept.—_E. Arnold._
3. Well, see to live; I will not touch thine eyes
For all the treasure that thine uncle owns.—_Shakespeare._
4. He that covereth his sins shall not prosper.—_Bible._
5. But in my time a father’s word was law,
And so it shall be now for me.—_Tennyson_.
6. If I talk to him, with his innocent prate
He will awake my mercy, which lies dead:
Therefore I will be sudden, and despatch.—_Shakespeare_.
7. The cock’s shrill clarion, or the echoing horn,
No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.—_Gray_.
8. “If you are not the heiress born,
And I,” said he, “the lawful heir,
We too shall wed to-morrow morn,
And you shall still be Lady Clare.”—_Tennyson_.
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=LESSON XLVII.=