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SEA-MELLS. 



my Lordes own mees and non other, so they be goode and 

 in season, and at jd. apece or jd. ob. at the moste.'' 



The description of their haunts which the poet gives us 



in the fourth act of King Lear cannot be easily forgotten. 



We seem to stand when reading it upon the very edge 



of the cliff !— 



" How fearful 



And dizzy 't is to cast one's eyes so low ! 



. . the murmuring surge, 



That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, 



Cannot be heard so high. — I '11 look no more, 



Lest my brain turn, and the deficient- sight 



Topple down headlong." 



King Lear, Act iv. Sc. 6. 



