172 TLOBA’S DIAL. 
December 25. 
CHRISTMAS ROSE. — Relieve my Anxiety. 
Fairest of the fair, and goodliest of life, 
All my secret to you I plaine, and shrive, 
Requiring grace and of complaint, 
To be healed, or martyred as a saint, 
For by my troth, I vow, and by this booke, 
You may both heal and slay me with a looke. 
Chaucer. 1378 . 
December 25. 
BALM OF GILEAD. — Relief. 
To me a wife indulgent grant, 
With beauty sweet, and complaisant 
To all my fault, with bending ease, 
Making e'en me, my actions please; 
Correcting, —yet invisibly, 
Governing without tyranny, — 
Gaining my love by just such stealth, 
As lovely days improve the health. 
Voltaire. 
