nine

This is the first volume of an edition which extended to nine volumes,

and which from the want of uniformity in the title-pages, the dates, and

Straight the three bands prepare in arras to join,

Each band the number of the sacred Nine.

Soon as she spreads her hand, the aërial guard

13. The Muses were the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne.

They presided over the various departments of art and science. They

Says my king, with accent stern yet mild,

Now nine years have brought him change of joy;

'Not a child.'

It rained; it always rained.

I think I never saw the sun until I was nine--

And then it was too late;

Put it down; it has vanished, at least; the place is most peaceful.

Through the Trastevere walking last night, at nine of the clock, I

Found no sort of disorder; I crossed by the Island-bridges,

month before the poet’s birth in 1573. Ben Jonson, therefore, was about

nine years younger than Shakespeare, and he survived Shakespeare about

twenty-one years, dying in August, 1637. Next to Shakespeare Ben Jonson

Is one worth seeking, when Thou hast of Thine

Ninety and nine?—