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Marquis of Dufferin born, 1826.

"Indeed he hath an excellent good name,
His excellence did earn it ere he had it."

Much Ado About Nothing, III. 1.

MANY-SIDED man, courteous yet strong,

Above all tactful in his intercourse;
Schooled in the ways of courts by practice long,
Always preferring suasion to brute force,
He royally maintained his country's honour
Alike as envoy and as governor.

June 22.

"Cease to lament for that thou canst not help,
And study help for that which thou lament'st."
Two Gentlemen of Verona, III. 1.

The future's wrapt in cloud, the present's here;

Reject the past and future for the near,

And rolling keep the ball.

Prince Edward of York born, 1894.

"Happy the parents of so fair a child."

Taming of the Shrew, IV. 5.

LL children to the mother are so fair,

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And still the last aye fairer than the rest;

They all alike demand her loving care—

All are so good, she knows not which is best.

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June 24.

"There is no virtue like necessity."

Richard II. I. 3.

APPY necessity! Ending all doubt,

The thing so desired we must do without.

No room for discussion, for hope or for fear,
"Tis best to comply without sigh or tear.
We bow to necessity. Strive hard to think
That's exactly the cup we wanted to drink.

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"Let each man do his best."

1 Henry IV. V. 2.

ET each man do his best,

Relying for the rest

On God's providence unknown; For all things ordered are,

From the falling of a star

To the sprouting of a seed unsown.

And when we've done our best,

Put our powers to the test,

And proved how powerless we are,

Let us banish all conceit

And humbly take our seat

On nature's rolling car.

"He jests at scars that never felt a wound." Romeo and Juliet, II. 2.

IS very true.

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E'en with the best intention

And earnest wish to do what's right,
I really come to think on due reflection
The mere onlooker cannot judge the fight.

He sees the charge, the glitter and the shock, He hears the trumpet and the cannon's roar ; Anon the murderous bayonets interlock,

But of the man that falls he knows no more.

And so it is in this our daily round,

We see our suffering friend and wish him well; Perhaps suggest where comfort may be found; But whether it relieve him-who can tell?

"So full of shapes is fancy

That it alone is high fantastical."

Twelfth Night, I. 1.

ANTASTIC fancies flit across the brain,

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Taking strange forms in dreams,

As 'cross the azure sky the fleecy train

For ever changing streams

Of summer clouds that form and disappear,
And now seem far away and now quite near.

June 28.

"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered."

Cymbeline, IV. 3.

ORTUNE may smile and favouring winds may blow,

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Whilst adverse currents sink to rest,

But if the captain keep his watch below

He sets his fortune too severe a test.