out of his wreck, to rise in;
      A sure and safe one, though thy master missed it. 
      Mark but my fall, and that that ruin’d me. 
      Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: 
      By that sin fell the angels; how can man, then,
      The image of his Maker, hope to win by it? 
      Love thyself last:  cherish those hearts that hate thee;
      Corruption wins not more than honesty. 
      Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace,
      To silence envious tongues.  Be just, and fear not: 
      Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s,
      Thy God’s, and truth’s; then, if thou fall’st, O Cromwell,
      Thou fall’st, a blessed martyr!  Serve the king;
      And,—­prithee, lead me in: 
      There, take an inventory of all I have,
      To the last penny; ’t is the king’s:  my robe,
      And my integrity to Heaven, is all
      I dare now call mine own.  O Cromwell, Cromwell! 
      Had I but served my God with half the zeal
      I served my king, He would not in mine age
      Have left me naked to mine enemies. 
Crom.  Good sir, have patience. 
Wol.  So I have.  Farewell
      The hopes of court! my hopes in Heaven do dwell.

Shakespeare.—­Henry viii, Act iii, Scene ii.

Notes.—­Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas (b. 1471, d. 1530), was for several years the favored minister or Henry viii. of England.  He acquired great wealth and power.  In 1522, he was one of the candidates for the Papal Throne.  In 1529, he was disgraced at the English court and arrested.

Cromwell, Thomas (b. 1490, d. 1540), was Wolsey’s servant, After Wolsey’s death, he became secretary to Henry viii., and towards the close of his life was made Earl of Essex.

XL.  THE PHILOSOPHER. (171)

John P. Kennedy, 1796-1870.  This gentleman, eminent in American politics and literature, was born in Baltimore, graduated at the College of Baltimore, and died in the same city.  He served several years in the Legislature of his native state, and three terms in the United States House of Representatives.  He was Secretary of the Navy during a part of President Fillmore’s administration, and was active in sending out the famous Japan expedition, and Dr. Kane’s expedition in search of Sir John Franklin.  Mr. Kennedy wrote several novels, as well as political and other papers.  His writings are marked by ease and freshness, The following extract is from “Swallow Barn,” a series of sketches of early Virginia. ###

From the house at Swallow Barn there is to be seen, at no great distance, a clump of trees, and in the midst of these a humble building is discernible, that seems to court the shade in which it is modestly embowered.  It is an old structure built of logs.  Its figure is a cube, with a roof rising from all sides to a point, and surmounted by a wooden weathercock, which somewhat resembles a fish and somewhat a fowl.