The complete works . s divided;—so that, as far as I can read or calcu-late, dying has been even more expensive to you than living;and then, to finish the business, as your virtues have beenmade costly to you by the clergyman, so your vices have beenmade costly to you by the lawyers; and you have one entirelearned profession living on your sins, and the other on yourrepentance. So that it is no wonder that, things having goneon thus for a long time, you begin to think that you wouldrather live as sheep without any shepherd, and that havingpaid so dearly for your instruction in religion and law
The complete works . s divided;—so that, as far as I can read or calcu-late, dying has been even more expensive to you than living;and then, to finish the business, as your virtues have beenmade costly to you by the clergyman, so your vices have beenmade costly to you by the lawyers; and you have one entirelearned profession living on your sins, and the other on yourrepentance. So that it is no wonder that, things having goneon thus for a long time, you begin to think that you wouldrather live as sheep without any shepherd, and that havingpaid so dearly for your instruction in religion and law, youshould now set your hope on a state of instruction in Irre-ligion and Liberty, which is, indeed, a form of education to behad for nothing, alike by the children of the Eich and Poor;the saplings of the tree that was to be desired to make uswise, growing now in copsewood on the hills, or even by theroadsides, in a Eepublican-Plantagenet manner, blossominginto cheapest gold, either for coins, which of course you. Republicans will call, not ISTobles, but Ignobles; or crowns,second and third hand—(head, I should say)—suppliedpunctually on demand, with liberal reduction on quantity; FOES CLAVIGEKA. 61 the roads themselves beautifully public—tramwayed, per-haps—and with gates set open enough for all men to thefree, outer, better world, your chosen guide preceding youmerrily, thus with music and dancing. You have always danced too willingly, poor friends, to thatplayer on the viol. We will try to hear, far away, a faintnote or two from a more chief masician on stringed instru-ments, in May, when the time of the Singing of Birds is come. Faithfully yours, JOHN EUSKD^. * Alluding to illustration on preceding page. LETTER V. ** For lo, the winter is past,The rain is over and gone,The flowers appear on the earth,The time of the singing of birds is come,Arise, O my fair one, my dove,And come. Denmark Hill, My Feiends — ^* ^«^ i^^i- It has been asked of me, very justlv, wh
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