...when the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage, and when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine." '}' Seymour's London. VoL. I .— 32 writing. Many years after the date of Heming's patent there were...

...when the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage, and when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine." temptiblc. There was an act of Common Council which provided that more than a thousand watchmen should...

...when the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage, and when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wire." t Seymour's London. of Charles the Second began a great change in the police of London ; a change...

...towers, And injury and outrage : And when night 500 Darkens the streets, then wander forth the son* Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. Witness...hospitable door Exposed a matron, to avoid worse rape. 50C These were the prime in order, and in might ; The rest were long to tell, though far renown'd,...

...when the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage, and when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine." f Seymour's London. extolled him as the greatest of all the benefactors of his city. What, they asked,...

...where the noise Of riot aseends above their loftiest towers, And injnry and ontrage : and when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolenee and wine.7 Witness the streets of Sodom, and that night In Gibeah, when the hospitable door...

...disturbers of the world's repose — the only destroyers that walk abroad in darkness. Alas ! - When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine." Then, too, the robber goes forth to perpetrate his deeds of violence and rapine ; then, too, the adulterer,...

...which this word is here used may explain a passage in Milton, which has been thought corrupt: — " Then wander forth the sons ' Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine." — (Paradise Lot, book i.) ' Ifeif— fist. Thus in ' Henry IV., Part II.,' Act II., Scene 4 :—...

...where the noise Of riot aseends above their loftiest towers, Ami injury, and outrage: and when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolenee and wine. \Vitm-,-s the streets of Sodom, and that night In Gibeah, when the hospitable door...

...which this word is here used may explain i passage in Milton, which has been thought corrupt : — " Then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine."— (Paradite Lost, book i ) b Neif— fist. Thus in ' Henry IV., Part II.,' Act II., Scene 4 :— " Sweet...