eternal, and down from his palace towers he every day descended to
administer his heavenly office in the city.

Your eye, then, is the shortest way into your heart. Watch it well,
therefore; suspect and challenge all outsiders who come near it. Keep
the passes that lead to your heart with all diligence. Let nothing
contraband, let nothing that even looks suspicious, ever enter your
hearts; for, if it once enters, and turns out to be evil, you will never
get it all out again as long as you live. 'Death is come up into our
windows,' says our prophet in another place, 'and is entered into our
palaces, to cut off our children in our houses and our young men in our
streets.' Make a covenant, then, with your eyes. Take an oath of your
eyes as to which way they are henceforth to look. For, let them look
this way, and your heart is immediately full of lust, and hate, and envy,
and ill-will. On the other hand, lead them to look that way and your
heart is as immediately full of truth and beauty, brotherly kindness and
charity. The light of the body is the eye; if, therefore, thine eye be
single, thy whole body shall be full of light; but if thine eye be evil,
thy whole body is full of darkness. If, therefore, the light that is in
thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!




CHAPTER V--THE KING'S PALACE


'The palace is not for man, but for the Lord God.'--_David_.

'Now, there is in this gallant country a fair and delicate town, a