Dubitantium,” whilst Frank, in another chair on the opposite side, was snoring over a folio edition of Montaigne.  And upon the table stood a small stone pitcher, containing a residuum of whisky punch, now grown cold.  Frank started up in great consternation upon hearing Ned’s footstep beside him, and, from that time, almost entirely deserted the library.  Mr. Chub, however, was not so easily drawn away from the career of his humor, and still shows his hankering after his leather-coated friends.

Notes.—­Cadmus is said to have taught the Greeks the use of the alphabet.

Socrates (b. 469, d. 399 B. C.), a noted Athenian philosopher.  Rebellion.—­In 1798, the Irish organized and rose against the English rule.  The rebellion was suppressed.

Actaeon [Ak-te’on], a fabled Greek hunter, who was changed into a stag.

Constantine, the Great (b. 272, d, 337), the first Christian emperor of Rome.  He was an able general and wise legislator, In 328, he removed his capital to Byzantium, which he named Constantinople.  AEschines [es’ke-nez] (b. 389, d. 314 B. C.), an Athenian orator, the rival of Demosthenes.  Castlereagh, Lord (b. 1769, d. 1822), a British statesman.  He was in power, and prominent in the suppression of the Rebellion.  Brutus, see p. 145.

Elzevirs [el’ze-virs], the name of a family of Dutch printers noted for the beauty of their workmanship.  They lived from 1540 to 1680.

Academicians.-The Old Academy was founded by Plato, at Athens, about 380 B. C. The New, by Carneades, about two hundred years later.

Jeremy Taylor (b. 1613, d. 1667), an English bishop and writer.  His Ductor Dubitantium, or “Rule of Conscience,” was one of his chief works.

Montaigne, Michel (b. 1533, d. 1592), was a celebrated French writer of peculiar characteristics.  He owes his reputation entirely to his “Essais.”

XLI.  MARMION AND DOUGLAS. (176)

Not far advanced was morning day,
When Marmion did his troop array
  To Surrey’s camp to ride;
He had safe conduct for his band,
Beneath the royal seal and hand,
  And Douglas gave a guide.

The train from out the castle drew,
But Marmion stopped to bid adieu: 
“Though something I might plain,” he said,
  “Of cold respect to stranger guest,
  Sent hither by your king’s behest,
While in Tantallon’s towers I staid,
  Part we in friendship from your land,
  And, noble Earl, receive my hand.” 
But Douglas round him drew his cloak,
Folded his arms, and thus he spoke: 
  “My manors, halls, and bowers shall still
  Be open, at my sovereign’s will,
    To each one whom he lists, howe’er
    Unmeet to be the owner’s peer. 
  My castles are my king’s alone,
  From turret to foundation stone;
  The hand of Douglas is his own;
    And never shall, in friendly grasp,
    The hand of such as Marmion clasp.”