HE WAS NOT FOR AN AGE, BUT FOR ALL TIME.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 168, 15 July 1916, Page 22

HE WAS NOT FOR AN AGE, BUT FOR ALL TIME.

SHAKESPE.4RE AND EVENTS OK TO-DAY. Shakespeare was truly a myriad-minded. Dian. It is astonishing what a wealth ot apt quotation can l>e drawn from the rich COALITION GOVERNMENT. Combine together 'gainst the enemy. For these domestic and particular broils Are not the question hero. —"King Lear." DUBLIN REBELLION. The tyrannous and bloody act is done, The most arch deed of piteous massaee, That ever yet thJs land was guilty of. —"The Tempest." Now for the rebels that stand out In Ireland, Expedient manage must be mace, my Liege, Ere further leisure yield them further means. —"Richard II." Great Lords, from Ireland am I come amain To signify that rebels there are up, And put the Englishmen unto the sword. Send succours, lords, and stop the rage betime, Before the wound do grow incurable; J?or being green, there is great hope of help. —••King Henry VI." ZEPPELIN RAIDERS. Murder most foul as in tile best it is, But this most foul, strange, and unnatural. —""llaebeth." THE SUBMARINE MENACE. Our liint or woe 3s common, every day some sailor's w-ife. The master of some merchant, and the merchant Have just our theme of woe. —"The Tempest." COMPULSION. Are these things, then, necessities! Then let us meet tliem like necessities. ■ —"King Henry VI." A PATRIOTIC MOTHER. Had I a dozen sons, each in my love nlike ... I had rather some eleven die nobly for their country than one volup tuouely surfwt out of action. —"Coriolanus." BRITISH WOMEN. Tonr own ladies, and pale-visag'd maids. Like Amazons, come tripping aftei drums; , ~ . Their thimbles into armed gauntlet! Their needies to lances, and their gentle hearts, To fierce and bloody inclination. —"King John." THE KAISER. The mailed Mars shall on his altar sit Up to the ears in blood. —■'King Henry VI." The Devil speed him! No man's pie H freed Prom liis ambitious finger. —"Henry VTTL" GEItMAN "OFFICIAL." Tjpon my tongues continual slanders ride Tug which In every language I pronounce Stuffing the ears of men with fals< reports. I speak of peace, while covert enmity, "jPader the .smile eOf- safety, wounds tn<