THY DATE, the allotted measure or
duration
of thy life.
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336. WHAT JUSTICE, etc. , what justice ever gave any other judgment but
(this, that) he, who deserves, etc.
340. IS THEN UNJUST, etc. , is it then unjust to give each man his due?
xxxix. Observe the subtle argument on suicide in this and st. xl.
xli. Spenser here puts into the mouth of the Knight Socrates' argument to
Cebes in their dialogue on the immortality of the soul. Plato's _Phaedo_,
vi.
367. QUOTH HE, Despair.
403.
THY DATE, the allotted measure or duration of thy life.
408. THY SINFULL HIRE, thy service of sin.
431. AS HE WERE CHARMED, etc. , as if he were under the spell of magic
incantation.
438. IN A TABLE, in a picture. The horrors of the Last Judgment and the
torments of the lost were favorite subjects of the mediaeval Catholic
painters.
468. FIRE-MOUTHED DRAGON. The dragons of romance are all described as
fire-breathing,
473. THAT CHOSEN ART, a reference to the doctrine of Election. _Mark_,
xiii, 20.
476. ACCURST HAND-WRITING.
