陶弘景：养性延命录·第3则

又遣內班秦宗超亳州太清宮祈雨。開運元年以稼穡不登禁止一切費用按《五代史出帝本紀》，不載 按《冊府元龜》，開運元年九月詔曰：「朕虔承顧命，獲嗣丕基。常懼顛危，不克負荷。宵分日昃，罔敢怠荒；夕惕晨興，每懷祗畏。但以恩信未著，德教未敷，理道不明，咎徵斯至。向者頻年災沴，稼穡不登，萬姓饑荒，道殣相望。上天垂譴，涼德所招。仍屬干戈尚興，邊陲多事，倉廩不足，則輟人之餱食；帑藏不足，則率人之資財；兵士不足，則取人之中丁；戰騎不足，則假人之乘馬。」雖…

And now affairs going backwards, the associates in the war sent an embassy to Sparta, requiring Lysander to be their admiral, professing themselves ready to undertake the business much more zealously, if he was…

Who lured the Swedish Nightingale To Western woods to come? Who prosperous and happy made The life of little Thumb? Who oped Amusement’s golden door So cheaply to the crowd, And taught Morality to smile On all _his_…