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# Chaucerian and Other Pieces/Piece19

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XIX. ENVOY TO ALISON.
O lewde book, with thy foole rudenesse, Sith thou hast neither beautee n'eloquence, Who hath thee caused, or yeve thee hardinesse For to appere in my ladyes presence? I am ful siker, thou knowest her benivolence 5 Ful ágreable to alle hir obeyinge; For of al goode she is the best livinge.
Allas! that thou ne haddest worthinesse To shewe to her som plesaunt sentence, Sith that she hath, thorough her gentilesse, 10 Accepted thee servant to her digne reverence! O, me repenteth that I n'had science And leyser als, to make thee more florisshinge; For of al goode she is the best livinge.
Beseche her mekely, with al lowlinesse, 15 Though I be fer from her [as] in absence, To thenke on my trouth to her and stedfastnesse, And to abregge of my sorwe the violence, Which caused is wherof knoweth your sapience; She lyke among to notifye me her lykinge; 20 For of al goode she is the best livinge. ​ Lenvoy.
Aurore of gladnesse, and day of lustinesse, Lucerne a-night, with hevenly influence Illumined, rote of beautee and goodnesse, Suspiries which I effunde in silence, 25 Of grace I beseche, alegge let your wrytinge, Now of al goode sith ye be best livinge.
Explicit.
From F. (Fairfax 16); collated with T. (Tanner 346); and Th. (Thynne, ed. 1532). 1. F. boke; T. Th. booke. Th. foule. 2. All beaute. 3. All the (twice). 5. So all. 6. Th. abeyeng (!). 7. F. T. goode; Th. good. Th. best; F. T. beste. 9. All somme, some. Th. plesaunt; F. plesant. 10. T. thurugh; F. thorgh; Th. through. 11. All the. 12. All ne (before had). 13. So all (with the for thee). 14. Th. good. Th. best; F. T. beste. 16. I supply as. 17. T. Th. trouth; F. trouthe. 18. F. abregge; Th. abrege; T. abrigge. T. sorow; F. sorwes; Th. sorowes. 20. All amonge. T. Th. notifye; F. notefye. 21. T. Th. al; F. alle. F. T. goode; Th. good.
Th. Lenuoye; T. The Lenuoye; F. om. 24. Th. T. Illumyned; F. Enlumyned. F. Rote (with capital). All beaute. F. and of; Th. T. om. of. 25. F. Suspiries; Th. Suspires. 26. T. beseke. Th. alege. 27. F. goode; Th. T. good. After 27: Th. Explicit; F. T. om.
# Chaucerian and Other Pieces/Piece23

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XXIII. GO FORTH, KING.
Rex sine sapiencia: Episcopus sine doctrina. Dominus sine consilio: Mulier sine castitate. Miles sine probitate: Iudex sine Iusticia. Diues sine elemosina: Populus sine lege. Senex sine religione: Seruus sine timore. Pauper superbus: Adolescens sine obediencia.
Go forth, king, rule thee by sapience; Bishop, be able to minister doctryne; Lord, to trew consayl yeve audience; Womanheed, to chastitè ever enclyne; Knight, let thy dedes worship determyne; 5 Be rightwis, jugë, in saving thy name; Rich, do almesse, lest thou lese blis with shame.
People, obey your king and the lawe; Age, be thou ruled by good religioun; Trew servant, be dredful, and keep thee under awe, 10 And thou, povre, fy on presumpcioun; Inobedience to youth is utter distruccioun; Remembre you how god hath set you, lo! And do your part, as ye be ordained to.
From Th. (Thynne, ed. 1532); I give rejected spellings. 1. forthe; the. 2. Bishoppe. 3. Lorde; trewe counsayle. 4. Womanhede. 5. lette. 6. rightous (read rightwis); iuge. 7. blysse. 9. relygion. 10. Trewe; dredeful; kepe. 11. poore; presumption. 12. distruction. 13. howe. 14. parte.
# Chinese Fairy Book (Richard Wilhelm)/27

TALES OF SAINTS AND MAGICIANS
XXVII
THE HALOS OF THE SAINTS
THE true gods all have halos around their heads. When the lesser gods and demons see these halos, they hide and dare not move. The Master of the Heavens on the Dragon-Tiger Mountain meets the gods at all times. One day the God of War came down to the mountain while the mandarin of the neighboring district was visiting the Master of the Heavens. The latter advised the mandarin to withdraw and hide himself in an inner chamber. Then he went out to receive the God of War. But the mandarin peeped through a slit in the door, and he saw the red face and green garment of the God of War as he stood there, terrible and awe-inspiring. Suddenly a red halo flashed up above his head, whose beams penetrated into the inner chamber so that the mandarin grew blind in one eye. After a time the God of War went away again, and the Master of the Heavens accompanied him. Suddenly Guan Di said, with alarm: "Confucius is coming! The halo he wears illumines the whole world. I cannot endure its radiance even a thousand miles away, so I must hurry and get out of the way!" And with that he stepped into a cloud and disappeared. The Master of the Heavens then told the mandarin what had happened, and added: "Fortunately you did not see the God of War face to face! Whoever does not possess the greatest virtue and the greatest wisdom, would be melted by the red ​glow of his halo." So saying he gave him a pill of the elixir of life to eat, and his blind eye gradually regained its sight.
It is also said that scholars wear a red halo around their heads which devils, foxes and ghosts fear when they see it.
There was once a scholar who had a fox for a friend. The fox came to see him at night, and went walking with him in the villages. They could enter the houses, and see all that was going on, without people being any the wiser. But when at a distance the fox saw a red halo hanging above a house he would not enter it. The scholar asked him why not.
"Those are all celebrated scholars," answered the fox. "The greater the halo, the more extensive is their knowledge. I dread them and do not dare enter their houses."
Then the man said: "But I am a scholar, too! Have I no halo which makes you fear me, instead of going walking with me?"
"There is only a black mist about your head," answered the fox. "I have never yet seen it surrounded by a halo."
The scholar was mortified and began to scold him; but the fox disappeared with a horse-laugh.
Note: This tale is told as traditionally handed down. The Master of the Heavens, Tian Schi, who dwells on the Lung Hu Schan, is the so-called Taoist pope.
# Chinese Fairy Book (Richard Wilhelm)/29

XXIX
THE ANCIENT MAN
ONCE upon a time there was a man named Huang An. He must have been well over eighty and yet he looked like a youth. He lived on cinnabar and wore no clothing. Even in winter he went about without garments. He sat on a tortoise three feet long. Once he was asked: "About how old might this tortoise be?" He answered: "When Fu Hi first invented fish-nets and eel-pots he caught this tortoise and gave it to me. And since then I have worn its shield quite flat sitting on it. The creature dreads the radiance of the sun and moon, so it only sticks its head out of its shell once in two thousand years. Since I have had the beast, it has already stuck its head out five times." With these words he took his tortoise on his back and went off. And the legend arose that this man was ten thousand years old.
Note: Cinnabar is frequently used in the preparation of the elixir of life (comp. No. 31). Fu Hi is "the life-breeding breath." Tortoises live to a great age.
# Chinese Fairy Book (Richard Wilhelm)/31

XXXI
THE EIGHT IMMORTALS
ONCE upon a time there was a poor man, who at last had no roof to shelter him and not a bite to eat. So, weary and worn, he lay down beside a little temple of the field-god that stood by the roadside and fell asleep. And he dreamed that the old, white-bearded field-god came out of his little shrine and said to him: "I know of a means to help you! To-morrow the Eight Immortals will pass along this road. Cast yourself down before them and plead to them!"
When the man awoke he seated himself beneath the great tree beside the field-god's little temple, and waited all day long for his dream to come true. At last, when the sun had nearly sunk, eight figures came down the road, which the begger clearly recognized as those of the Eight Immortals. Seven of them were hurrying as fast as they could, but one among them, who had a lame leg, limped along after the rest. Before him—it was Li Tia Guai—the man cast himself to earth. But the lame Immortal did not want to bother with him, and told him to go away. Yet the poor man would not give over pleading with him, begging that he might go with them and be one of the Immortals, too. That would be ​impossible, said the cripple. Yet, as the poor man did not cease his prayers and would not leave him, he at last said: "Very well, then, take hold of my coat!" This the man did and off they went in flying haste over paths and fields, on and on, and even further on. Suddenly they stood together high up on the tower of Pong-lai-schan, the ghost mountain by the Eastern Sea. And, lo, there stood the rest of the Immortals as well! But they were very discontented with the companion whom Li Tia Guai had brought along. Yet since the poor man pleaded so earnestly, they too allowed themselves to be moved, and said to him: "Very well! We will now leap down into the sea. If you follow us you may also become an Immortal!" And one after another the seven leaped down into the sea. But when it came to the man's turn he was frightened, and would not dare the leap. Then the cripple said to him: "If you are afraid, then you cannot become an Immortal!"
"But what shall I do now?" wailed the man, "I am far from my home and have no money!" The cripple broke off a fragment of the battlement of the tower, and thrust it into the man's hand; then he also leaped from the tower and disappeared into the sea like his seven companions.
When the man examined the stone in his hand more closely, he saw that it was the purest silver. It provided him with traveling money during the many weeks it took him to reach his home. But by that time the silver was completely used up, and he found himself just as poor as he had been before.
Note: Little field-god temples, Tu Di Miau, are miniature stone chapels which stand before every village. As regards the field-god, see No. 63.
# Chinese Fairy Book (Richard Wilhelm)/33

XXXIII
THE MISERLY FARMER
ONCE upon a time there was a farmer who had carted pears to market. Since they were very sweet and fragrant, he hoped to get a good price for them. A bonze with a torn cap and tattered robe stepped up to his cart and asked for one. The farmer repulsed him, but the bonze did not go. Then the farmer grew angry and began to call him names. The bonze said: "You have pears by the hundred in your cart. I only ask for one. Surely that does you no great injury. Why suddenly grow so angry about it?"
The bystanders told the farmer that he ought to give the bonze one of the smaller pears and let him go. But the farmer would not and did not. An artisan saw the whole affair from his shop, and since the noise annoyed him, he took some money, bought a pear and gave it to the bonze.
The bonze thanked him and said: "One like myself, who has given up the world, must not be miserly. I have beautiful pears myself, and I invite you all to eat them with me." Then some one asked: "If you have pears then why do you not eat your own?" He answered: "I first must have a seed to plant."
And with that he began to eat the pear with gusto. When he had finished, he held the pit in his hand, took his pick-ax from his shoulder; and dug a hole a couple of inches deep. Into this he thrust the pit, and covered it with earth. Then he asked the folk in the market place for water, with which to water it. A pair of curiosity seekers brought him hot water from ​the hostlery in the street, and with it the bonze watered the pit. Thousands of eyes were turned on the spot. And the pit could already be seen to sprout. The sprout grew and in a moment it had turned into a tree. Branches and leaves burgeoned out from it. It began to blossom and soon the fruit had ripened: large, fragrant pears, which hung in thick clusters from the boughs. The bonze climbed into the tree and handed down the pears to the bystanders. In a moment all the pears had been eaten up. Then the bonze took his pick-ax and cut down the tree. Crash, crash! so it went for a while, and the tree was felled. Then he took the tree on his shoulder and walked away at an easy gait.
When the bonze had begun to make his magic, the farmer, too, had mingled with the crowd. With neck out-stretched and staring eyes he had stood there and had entirely forgotten the business he hoped to do with his pears. When the bonze had gone off he turned around to look after his cart. His pears had all disappeared. Then he realized that the pears the bonze had divided had been his own. He looked more closely, and the axle of his cart had disappeared. It was plainly evident that it had been chopped off quite recently. The farmer fell into a rage and hastened after the bonze as fast as ever he could. And when he turned the corner, there lay the missing piece from the axle by the city wall. And then he realized that the pear-tree which the bonze had chopped down must have been his axle. The bonze, however, was nowhere to be found. And the whole crowd in the market burst out into loud laughter.
# Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company v. Clark

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United States Supreme Court
178 U.S. 353
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company v. Clark
Argued: April 20, 23, 1900. --- Decided: May 28, 1900

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# Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company v. Bosworth

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United States Supreme Court
179 U.S. 442
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company v. Bosworth
Argued: October 24, 25, 1899. --- Decided: December 17, 1900
Messrs. Burton Hanson, George R. Peck, and George P. Cary for petitioner.
Messrs. Bluford Wilson and Philip Barton Warren for respondents.
Mr. Justice White delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company v. Bosworth/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
179 U.S. 442
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company v. Bosworth
Argued: October 24, 25, 1899. --- Decided: December 17, 1900
The decision of the controversy presented in this record is controlled by the principles announced in the opinion just delivered in Huntting Elevator Co. v. Bosworth, number 12 of this term (next case). The claim of the railroad company was for the value of certain cars, admittedly owned by it, which had been received by the Peoria Company at various times on and prior to October 28, 1894, from a connecting carrier, upon shipments of barley from various points to commission merchants in St. Louis, the cars, except in one or two instances, being routed on the way bills to East St. Louis. The cars so taken by the Peoria Company were deposited on the tracks at East St. Louis set apart for the use of the Peoria Company under the circumstances disclosed in the opinion in the Huntting Elevator Company Case, and while awaiting orders from the consignees for further movement, were destroyed in the fire of October 28, 1894. The circuit court entered a decree in favor of the railroad company, but this decree was reversed by the circuit court of appeals.
For the reasons stated in the opinion in the Huntting Elevator Company case, the decree of the Circuit Court of Appeals must be reversed, and the decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Illinois affirmed.

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# Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific Railway Company v. Dowell

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United States Supreme Court
229 U.S. 102
Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific Railway Company v. Dowell
Argued: April 14, 1913. --- Decided: May 26, 1913
Messrs. F. C. Dillard and Paul E. Walker for plaintiffs in error.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 102-106 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. David Smyth, J. D. Houston, F. S. Macy, and C. H. Brooks for defendant in error.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 106-109 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice Lurton delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific Railway Company v. Jelske Cramer

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United States Supreme Court
232 U.S. 490
Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific Railway Company v. Jelske Cramer
Argued: January 16, 1974. --- Decided: February 24, 1914
Messrs. M. L. Bell and F. C. Dillard for plaintiff in error.
[Argument of Counsel from page 491 intentionally omitted]
No appearance for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice Lamar delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company v. United States

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United States Supreme Court
198 U.S. 385
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company v. United States
Argued: April 16, 1905. --- Decided: May 15, 1905
Messrs. George R. Peck, W. W. Dudley, and L. T. Michener for appellant.
Assistant Attorney General Pradt and Mr. John Q. Thompson for appellee.
Mr. Justice McKenna delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Clarel/Part 4/Canto 12
## 12. Of Pope and Turk

Marking the priest not all sedate, Rolfe, that a friend might fret discard, Turned his attention to debate Between two strangers at the board. In furtherance of his point or plea 5 One said:  "Late it was told to me, And by the man himself concerned,
A merchant Frank on Syria's coast, That in a fire which traveled post, 10 His books and records being burned, His Christian debtors held their peace; The Islam ones disclaimed release, And came with purses and accounts."  "And duly rendered their amounts? 15 'Twas very kind. But oh, the greed, Rapacity, and crime at need In satraps which oppress the throng." "True. But with these 'tis, after all, Wrong-doing purely personal-- 20 Not legislated--not a wrong Law-sanctioned. No: the Turk, admit, In scheme of state, the scheme of it, Upon the civil arm confers A sway above the scimeter's-- 25 The civil power itself subjects Unto that Koran which respects Nor place nor person. Nay, adjourn The jeer; for now aside we'll turn. Dismembered Poland and her throe 30 In Ninety-Five, all unredressed: Did France, did England then protest?"  "England? I'm sure I do not know. Come, I distrust your shifting so. Pray, to what end now is this pressed?" 35  "Why, here armed Christendom looking on, In protest the Sultan stood alone."  "Indeed? But all this, seems to me, Savors of Urquhart's vanity."  "The commentator on the East?" 40  "The same: that very inexact Eccentric ideologist Now obsolete."  "And that's your view? He stands for God." 45 "I stand by fact." "Well then, another fact or two;
When Poland's place in Thirty-One Was blotted out, the Turk again Protested, with one other man, 50 The Pope; these, and but these alone; And in the protest both avowed 'Twas made for justice's sake and God.-- You smile."  "Oh no: but very clear 55 The protest prompted was by fear In Turk and Pope, that time might come When spoliation should drive home Upon themselves. Besides, you know The Polish church was Catholic: 60 The Czar would wrest it to the Greek: 'Twas that touched Rome. But let it go.-- In pith, what is it you would show? Are Turks our betters? Very strange Heaven's favor does not choicely range 65 Upon these Islam people good: Bed-rid they are, behindhand all, While Europe flowers in plenitude Of wealth and commerce."  "I recall 70 Nothing in Testament which saith That worldliness shall not succeed In that wherein it laboreth.
Howbeit, the Sultan's coming on: Fine lesson from ye has he won 75 Of late; apt pupil he indeed: Ormus, that riches did confer, Ormus is made a borrower: Selim, who grandly turbaned sat, Verges on bankruptcy and--hat. 80 But this don't touch the rank and file; At least, as yet. But preach and work: You'll civilize the barbarous Turk-- Nay, all the East may reconcile: That done, let Mammon take the wings of even, 85 And mount and civilize the saints in heaven."
 "I laugh--I like a brave caprice! And, sir "  But here did Rolfe release His ear, and Derwent too. A stir 90 In court was heard of man and steed-- Neighings and mountings, din indeed And Rolfe: "Come, come; our traveler."
# Clarel/Part 3/Canto 9
## 9. Of Monasteries

The lake ink-black mid slopes of snow-- The dead-house for the frozen, barred-- And the stone hospice; chill they show Monastic in thy pass, Bernard. Apostle of the Alps storm-riven, 5 How lone didst build so near the heaven!  Anchored in seas of Nitria's sand, The desert convent of the Copt-- No aerolite can more command
The sense of dead detachment, dropped 10 All solitary from the sky.  The herdsmen of Olympus lie In summer when the eve is won Viewing white Spermos lower down, The mountain-convent; and winds bear 15 The chimes that bid the monks to prayer; Nor man-of-war-hawk sole in sky O'er lonely ship sends lonelier cry.  The Grand Chartreuse with crystal peaks Mid pines--the wintry Paradise 20 Of soul which but a Saviour seeks-- The mountains round all slabbed with ice; May well recall the founder true, St. Bruno, who to heaven has gone And proved his motto--that whereto 25 Each locked Carthusian yet adheres: Troubled I was, but spake I none; I kept in mind the eternal years.  And Vallambrosa--in, shut in; And Montserrat--enisled aloft; 30 With many more the verse might win, Solitudes all, austere or soft.
 But Saba! Of retreats where heart Longing for more than downy rest, Fit place would find from world apart, 35 Saba abides the loneliest: Saba, that with an eagle's theft Seizeth and dwelleth in the cleft.  Aloof the monks their aerie keep, Down from their hanging cells they peep 40 Like samphire-gatherers o'er the bay Faint hearing there the hammering deep Of surf that smites the ledges gray.
But up and down, from grot to shrine, Along the gorge, hard by the brink 45 File the gowned monks in even line,
And never shrink! With litany or dirge they wend Where nature as in travail dwells; And the worn grots and pensive dells 50 In wail for wail responses send-- Echoes in plaintive syllables.  With mystic silvery brede divine, Saint Basil's banner of Our Lord (In lieu of crucifix adored 55 BY Greeks which images decline) Stained with the five small wounds and red, Down through the darkling gulf is led-- BY night ofttimes, while tapers glow Small in the depths, as stars may show 60 Reflected far in well profound.
 Full fifteen hundred years have wound Since cenobite first harbored here; The bones of men, deemed martyrs crowned, To fossils turn in mountain near; 65 Nor less while now lone scribe may write, Even now, in living dead of night, In Saba's lamps the flames aspire-- The votaries tend the far-transmitted fire.