Through all disguise, form, place or name,
    Beneath the flaunting robes of sin,
  Through poverty and squalid shame,
    Thou lookest on the man within.

  On man, as man, retaining yet,
    Howe’er debased, and soiled, and dim,
  The crown upon his forehead set—­
    The immortal gift of God to him.
Democracy.  J.G.  WHITTIER.

PERFECTION.

  To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
  To throw a perfume on the violet,
  To smooth the ice, or add another hue
  Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
  To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
  Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
King John, Act iv.  Sc. 2.  SHAKESPEARE.

  How many things by season seasoned are
  To their right praise and true perfection!
Merchant of Venice, Act v.  Sc. 1.  SHAKESPEARE.

                                Those about her
  From her shall read the perfect ways of honor.
King Henry VIII., Act v.  Sc. 5.  SHAKESPEARE.

  Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,
  Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.
Essay on Criticism, Pt.  II.  A. POPE.

PERFUME.

And the ripe harvest of the new-mown hay
Gives it a sweet and wholesome odor.
Richard III. (Altered), Act v.  Sc. 3.  C. CIBBER.

Perfume for a lady’s chamber. Winter’s Tale, Act iv.  Sc. 4.  SHAKESPEARE.

                      Take your paper, too. 
  And let me have them very well perfumed,
  For she is sweeter than perfume itself
  To whom they go to.
Taming of the Shrew, Act i.  Sc. 2.  SHAKESPEARE.

Sabean odors from the spicy shore
Of Arabie the blest.
Paradise Lost, Bk.  IV.  MILTON.

And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. Rape of the Lock, Canto I.  A. POPE.

  A violet in the youth of primy nature,
  Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,
  The perfume and suppliance of a minute.
Hamlet, Act i.  Sc. 3.  SHAKESPEARE.

  I cannot talk with civet in the room,
  A fine puss-gentleman that’s all perfume.
Conversation.  W. COWPER.

PERSONAL.

  CHAUCER.

  As that renowned poet them compyled
  With warlike numbers and heroicke sound,
  Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,
  On Fame’s eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.
Faerie Queene, Bk.  IV.  Canto II.  E. SPENSER.

  EARL OF WARWICK.

  Peace, impudent and shameless Warwick! 
  Proud setter-up and puller-down of kings.
King Henry VI., Part III.  Act iii.  Sc. 3.  SHAKESPEARE.

  GALILEO.

The starry Galileo, with his woes. Childe Harold, Canto IV.  LORD BYRON.