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Riches and conquest and renowne I sing, 
Riches and honour, conquest without blood, 
Enough to seat the Monarchy of earth 
Like to Jove’s Eagle on Eliza’s hand. 
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Then, most admired Soveraigne, let your breath 
Go forth upon the waters, and create 
A golden world in this our iron age. 
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But we shall forth I know ; Gold is our fate 
Which all our aéts doth fashion and create, 
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And now she blesseth with her wonted Graces 
Th’ industrious knight, the soul of this exploit, 
Dismissing him to convoy of his stars. 
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To his Argolian Fleet, where round about 
His bating colours English valour swarms 
In haste, as if Guianian Orenoque 
With his Fell waters fell upon our shore, 
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Negro Folk-Lore Scraps.—Perhaps some of our read- 
ers can add to the following :— 
Birth and Childhood.—A cat crying in the house por- 
tends that a birth will shortly take place. 
To prevent a baby seeing ghosts put a bible or prayer- 
book under its pillow, os tie a string (red preferred) round 
its neck, and hang to it a bag containing a piece of 
asafztida or the caul of another baby of the opposite 
sex. You must never let an unbaptised infant sleep 
alone without either the bible or prayer-book ; after the 
ceremony has been performed it does not matter. 
To cure thrush, take a cloth, clean the mouth with it 
and hang it on a wall or partition todry. Asit dries the 
child will get better, but you must not put the cloth in 
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