The Puritans


By


Arlo Bates


The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
_All's Well That Ends Well_, iv. 3.





"Abandoning my heart, and rapt in ecstasy, I ran after her till I came
to a place in which religion and reason forsook me."
_Persian Religious Hymn.




CONTENTS


I. AFTER SUCH A PAGAN CUT
II. THERE BEGINS CONFUSION
III. AS FALSE AS STAIRS OF SAND
IV. SOME SPEECH OF MARRIAGE