...therefore, let us enjoy the good things " that are present; and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine...crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered : let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness : let us leave tokens of our joyful" ness...

...the cry of the revellers, as he who saw vanity under the sun heard them crying in the streetway : ' Let ' no flower of the spring pass by us. Let us crown ourselves ' with roses before they be withered,' for the day passes, and * Tate Gallery. the night. For every man his...

...therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present : and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine...crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered. Let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness : let us leave tokens of our joyfulness in...

...we can" Let us enjoy the good things that are pre" sent. Let us fill ourselves with costly wines " and ointments; and let no flower of the *' spring...ourselves " with rose-buds before they be withered. Let *f none of us go without his part of our volup" tuousness. Let us leave tokens of our joy" fulness...

...who was undoubtedly an Eastern writer, shows the contrary : Let us fill ourselves with costly ivine and ointments: and let no flower of the spring pass...ourselves with rose-buds before they be withered. Ch. ii. 7, 8. Here, instead of citing any passage from Western writers, I would set down the following...

...Anacreon." III. p. 94. The eastern use of this flower in festivals is noticed in Wisdom. C. II. v. 7, 8. " Let no flower of the spring pass by us, let us crown...ourselves with Rose-buds, before they be withered." See a floor strewed with Roses in the Hereulaneum Paintings, III. p. 61. 135. Pravins.— This Rose...

...proper opportunities. But we have this custom described at full length in Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus : " Let no flower of the spring pass by us ; let us crown ourselves with rosebuds," chap. ii. 8. " Wisdom weareth a crown, triumphing for ever," chap. iv. 2. " The fear of the Lord is...

...as well as among the Greeks and Bomans, appears from the following passage of the book of Wisdom : " Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments,...Let us crown ourselves with rose-buds, before they are withered." WISD. 11. 7, 8, 2. — the exceedingly strong one] »3T!<b V»DK, fortis Domino, ie...

...sealed, so that no man cometh again. Come on, therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present! Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments...crown ourselves with rose-buds before they be withered ! Let none of us go without his part of voluptuousness; for this is our portion, and our lot is this."...

...as well as among the Greeks and Romans, appears from the following passage of the book of Wisdom : " Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments,...Let us crown ourselves with rose-buds, before they are withered." Wisd. ii. 7, 8. 2. — the exceedingly strong one] 'ji«b yn«, fortis Domino, ie fortissimus,...