man's fees.
1378
SHAKS.: _Troil. and Cress.,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin
Is pride that apes humility.
1379
COLERIDGE: _The Devil's Thoughts._

=Priest.=

No nightly trance or breathed spell
Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
1380
MILTON: _Hymn on Christ's Nativity,_ Line 173.

=Primrose.=

A primrose by a river's brim
A yellow primrose was to him,
And it was nothing more.
1381
WORDSWORTH: _Peter Bell,_ Pt. i., St. 12.

=Printing.=

Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind
To stamp a lasting image of the mind!
1382
CRABBE: _The Library,_ Line 69.

Some said, "John, print it"; others said, "Not so."
Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No."
1383
BUNYAN: _Pilgrim's Progress, Apology for his Book._

=Prison.=

Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet, take
That for an hermitage.
1384
LOVELACE: _To Althea, from Prison,_ iv.

=Procrastination.=

Procrastination is the thief of time:
Year after year it steals, till all are fled,
And to the mercies of a moment leaves
The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
1385
YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night i., Line 393.

=Prodigies.=

When these prodigies
Do so conjointly meet, let not men say
"These are their reasons,--They are natural;"
For, I believe, they are portentous things
Unto the climate that they point upon.
1386
SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

=Progress.=

Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs,
And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns.
1387
TENNYSON: _Locksley Hall,_ St. 69.

=Promise.=

And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd,
That palter with us in a double sense:
That keep the word of promise to our ear
And break it to our hope.
1388
SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act v., Sc. 8.

=Proof.=

Give me the ocular proof;
* * * * *
Make me to see 't; or, at the least, so prove it,
That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop,
To hang a doubt on.
1389
SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

=Prophecy.=

Coming events cast their shadows before.
1390
CAMPBELL: _Lochiel's Warning._

Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life,
The evening beam that smiles the cloud away,
And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!
1391
BYRON: _Bride of Ab.,_ Canto ii., St. 20.

=Prose.=

And he whose fustian's so sublim