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The Floral King. 213
bow themselves, and the grinders shall cease
because they are few, and those that look out of
the windows be darkened . . . . Or ever the
silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken,
or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the
wheel broken at the cistern’ (Eccles. xii. 3 & 6]. I
have therefore begun to look to my house.
“It is no less art to turn about in the haven, than
to sail out on the boundless main with filled sails.
“T have, therefore, during the last year, begun to
build additionally at my country estate, that my
widow and helpless children may have a roof to
shelter them when I depart from them.
‘J have made my disposition as regards my
property for my children, and disinherited my son,
because he has his salary as Adjunctus to solace
himself with (4,000 dal.) until he gets more.
And now I have at last sent in my petition to His
Royal Majesty for a gracious discharge from the
professorship, which I hope to get very soon. I
require also to rest, and breathe freely, a day before
I die; yet, I have reserved to myself:
“x, To retain my salary until my dying hour ;
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