The Semissis, or מםימם Mesimes, was the half of an assar, or the 192d part of a shekel: its weight was 2 barley corns, and its value equal to ּ146, or the 7th part nearly of a penny sterling.
The hills, like giants at a hunting, lay / Chin upon hand, to see the game at bay,— / Now stab and end the creature - to the heft!
What, if you like, could be more sensational than the fact that the ancient island of Cythera, sacred, as Lemrière says, to the Goddess Venus, who rose, as some suppose, from the sea, near its coasts, has been quite happily governed for three months by an assembly of islanders under the presidency of a local lawyer ? But the papers prefer to go on flogging the same old dead donkeys.
Whilst Juliet slept, and whilst the other weepen thus,
Our Friar Laurence hath by this sent one to Romeus,
