What a change for one short month to produce! What a comment upon earthly grandeur! It is well for man in the hour of most exultant prosperity to be humble.

He knows not how soon he may fall.
Instructive indeed is the apostrophe of Cardinal Wolsey, illustrated as the truth he utters is by almost every page of history: "This is the state of man; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, The third day comes a frost, a killing frost; And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening--nips his root, And then he falls as I do." The fugitive emperor did not venture to stop for refreshment or repose until he had reached the strong town of Villach in Carinthia, nearly one hundred and fifty miles west of Innspruck.

The troops of Maurice soon entered the city which the emperor had abandoned, and the imperial palace was surrendered to pillage.

Heroic courage, indomitable perseverance always commands respect.

These are great and noble qualities, though they may be exerted in a bad cause.