...parsons. How unaffectedly he refers to this transition in a passing stanza of his manifold poem ! ' Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that takes the town, Thou didst betray me to a lingering book, And wrap me in a gown.' Having taken deacon's orders at this time, he was made prebendary...

...parsons. How unaffectedly he refers to this transition in a passing stanza of his manifold poem ! ' Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that takes the town, Thou didst betray me to a lingering book, And wrap me in a gown.' Having taken deacon's orders at this time, he was made prebendary...

...groans." Sorrow was all my soul. I scarce believed, TiD grief did tell me roundly, that I lived. When I got health, thou took'st away my life: And more...and edge was lost ; a blunted knife Was of more use than I. Thus thin and lean, without a fence or friend, I was blown through with every storm and wind....

...been mine could I have chosen. Lord H.—Yes ; I remember thy verse :— Whereas my birth and spirits rather took The way that takes the town ; Thou didst betray me to a lingering book, And wrap me in a gown. It was not my fault, George, that it so chanced. George H.—I...

...university. Herbert is represented in attendance on our Saviour, and underneath are the following lines : Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that takes the town ; Thou didst betray me to a lingering book, And wrap me in a gown. Yet, for I threatened oft the siege to raise, Not simpering...

...looking on. Beneath are inscribed the following lines, from one of his poems on afflietion : — " Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that takes the town, Thou didst betray me to a lingering book, And wrap me in a gown : Yet, for I threaten'd oft the siege to raise, Jïot simpering...

...grones : Sorrow was my soul : I scarce beleeved, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived. When I got health, thou took'st away my life, And more...and spirit rather took The way that takes the town ; • Month. t An old idiom still used in Scotland ; it is fonnd in Shakespere: — " Then ' began...

...Looking back afterwards on those sunny days from his quiet parsonage at Bemerton, he says : — — ' my birth and spirit rather took The way that takes the town.' But it is not in the tone of vain regret. He thanks the guiding Providence which diverted him by his...

...reflection on God's providence, and some passages of his life, in which he says, " WHEREAS my blrth and spirit rather took " The way that takes the town; " Thou didst betray me to a lingering book. " And wrap me in a gown. " I was entangled in a world of strife, " Before 1 had the...

...groans : Sorrow was all my soul ; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived. When I got health, thou took'st away my life, And more...and edge was lost ; a blunted knife Was of more use than I. Thus thin and lean without a fence or friend, I was blown through with every storm and wind....