Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy
To kings that fear their subjects' treachery!"
_3 King Henry VI_.



"When I paused to lean on my hoe, these sounds and sights
I heard and saw anywhere in the row, a part of the inexhaustible
entertainment which the country offers."
--THOREAU.


"Life is sweet, brother.... There's night and day, brother,
both sweet things; sun, moon and stars, brother, all sweet
things; there's likewise the wind on the heath. Life is very
sweet, brother; who would wish to die?"
--BORROW: _Jasper Petulengro_.




GRAIN AND CHAFF FROM AN ENGLISH MANOR




CHAPTER I.