them, I die, but shall make no will. As for
my honesty, it shall go with me; let him that comes after be told of
this. When the day that he was to be gone was come, he addressed
himself to go over the river. Now the river at that time overflowed
the banks {39} in some places. But Mr Honest, in his life-time, had
spoken to one Good-conscience to meet him there, the which he also did,
and lent him his hand, and so helped him over. The last words of Mr
Honest were, Grace reigns. So he left the world.

After this it was noised abroad that Mr Valiant-for-truth was taken
with a summons by the same post as the other; and had this for a token
that the summons was true, that his pitcher was broken at the fountain.
When he understood it, he called for his friends, and told them of it.
Then said he: I am going to my Father's, and though with great
difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the
trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him
that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him
that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness
for me that I have fought His battles who now will be my Rewarder.

When the day that he must go hence was come, many accompanied him to
the river-side; into which as he went he said, Death, where is thy
sting? And as he went down deeper he said, Grave, where is thy
victory? So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on
the other side. . . .

But glorious it was to see how the open region was filled with horses
and chariots, with trumpeters and pipers, with singers and players on
stringed instruments, to welcome the pilgrims as they went up, and
followed one another in at the beautiful gate of the city.

(_Pilgrim's Progress_.)

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SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE 1628-1699

POETRY AND MUSIC

But to spin off this thread, which is already grown too long; what
honour and request the ancient poetry has lived in, may not only be
observed from the universal reception and use in all nations from China
to Peru, from Scythia to Arabia, but from the esteem of the best and
the greatest men as well as the vulgar. Among the Hebrews, David and
Solomon, the wisest kings, Job and Jeremiah, the holiest men, were the
best poets of their nation and language. Among the Greeks, the two
most renowned sages and lawgivers were Lycurgus and Solon, whereof the
last is known to have excelled in poetry, and the fir