LUCRETIUS

Page 100. 20. jusqu'à la poignée: up io the hilt.

" Now stab and end the créature — to the heft."

— Browning.

Page loi. 8. C'est l'obéissance: It is obédience.

. . . Knowledge, Will, — Thèse twain are strong, but stronger yet the third, — Obédience, — 'tis the great tap-root that still, Knit round the rock of Duty, is not stirred, Though Heaven-loosed tempests spend their utmost skill.

— James Russell Lowell.

26. prends cette croix: take this cross. The badge worn by the Knights of St. John is a Maltese Cross.

Hail to ye, Lions of Fight, defenders of Acre, Rhodes, and the blest tomb of Christ. Yet greater was thy glory when in humility ye nursed the sick and lowly. Meekness and valor form the palm wreath of the Christian whose glorious faith rests upon the cross.