CHAPTER II. 



% Continental Sour. 



' Are not the mountains, waves, and skies a part 

 Of me and of my soul, as I of them ? 

 Is not the love of these deep in my heart 

 With a pure passion ? Should I not contemn 

 All objects, if compared with these ? 

 A tide of suffering, rather than forego and stem 

 Such feelings for the hard and worldly phlegm 

 Of those whose eyes are only turn'd below, 

 Gazing upon the ground, with thoughts which dare not glow ? " 



— Lord Byron. 



" The things to be seen and observed are : the courts of princes, .... 

 armouries, arsenals, magazines, exchanges, burses, warehouses ; exercises 

 of horsemanship, fencing, training of soldiers, and the like ; comedies, 

 Bach whereunto the better sort of persons do resort. As for triumphs, 

 masks, feasts, weddings, funerals, capital executions, and such shows, 

 men need not to be put in mind of them ; yet they are not to be 



neglected For quarrels, they are with care and discretion to be 



avoided." — Lord Bacon. 



