. One hundred and one famous poems, with a prose supplement. oly: Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thyGod; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son,nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant,nor thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy gates: For in six da5s the Lord made heaven and earth, thesea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day:wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. V Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days maybe long upon the land which the Lord thy Go
. One hundred and one famous poems, with a prose supplement. oly: Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thyGod; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son,nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant,nor thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy gates: For in six da5s the Lord made heaven and earth, thesea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day:wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. V Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days maybe long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. VI Thou shalt not kill. VII Thou shalt not commit adultery. Page One Hundred and Sixty-eight tf)its {Sinnitttb. nnb $nv ^fimnttns ^xxzms Thou shalt not steal. VIII IX Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor, X Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors house, thou shaltnot covet thy neighbors wife, nor his man-servant, nor hismaid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thv neighbors. ?» ?!? ?> Magna Charta. On June 15, 1215, KingJohn met the barons nearRunnymeade on theThames, and grantedthem the charter whichthey laid before him. This charter containssixty-three articles, someof which were merelytemporary; the principlesupon which the wholeEnglish judicial systemis based are these: No freeman shall betaken or imprisoned, ordisseised*, or outlawed,or banished . . unlessby the lawful judgmentof his peers, or by thelaw of the land. We will sell to noman, we will not denyto any man, either jus-tice or right. Among the most im-portant articles were thetwo which limited thepower of the king inmatters of taxation: No scutage or aidshall be imposed in ourkingdom unless by thegeneral council of ourkingdom; and For the holding of the general council of the kingdom . .we shall cause to be summoned the archbishops, bishops, abbots,earls, and the greater barons of the realm, singly, by our furthermore we shall cause to be summoned gene
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