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Unless that leap year doth combine,
And give to February twenty-nine.

BISHOP STILL, (JOHN).

1543-1607.

A Songe. (Gammer Gurton's Needle.) Act in. I cannot eat but little meat,

My stomach is not good;

But sure I think that I can drink
With any that wears a hood.

Back and side go bare, go bare,
Both foot and hand go cold;

But, belly, God send thee good ale enough,
Whether it be new or old.

Old Tarlton's Song.

FROM THE PIGGES CORANTOE, 1642.

The King of France, with forty thousand men Went up a hill, and so came down again.

MARTYN PARKER.

Ye gentlemen of England

That live at home at ease,
Ah! little do you think upon
The dangers of the seas.

Lines used by John Ball, to encourage the Rebels in Wat Tyler's Rebellion. Hume's History of England, Vol. I. Chap. 17. Note 1.

When Adam dolve, and Eve span,

Who was then the gentleman?

From the Garland, a Collection of Poems, 1721, by Mr. Br-st, author of a Copy of Verses called "The British Beauties."

Praise undeserved is Satire in disguise.*

From Ovid's Metamorphosis, translated by several hands and published by Samuel Garth. 2 vols. 12mo. 1751. Vol 2. Book vii. Line 20.

I see the right, and I

approve

it too,

Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.†

DYER.

[Published in the early part of the reign of George I.]

And he that will this health deny

Down among the dead men let him lie.

*This line is quoted by Pope, in the 1st Epistle of Horace,

Book ii.,

"Praise undeserved is Scandal in disguise."

Video meliora proboque

Sed deteriora sequor.

J. HOWARD PAYNE.

OPERA OF CLARI-THE MAID OF MILAN.

Home, Sweet Home.

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble there's no place like home.

[From Debrett's Asylum for Fugitive Pieces, 1795.]
An Expostulation.

Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love

But why did you kick me down stairs?

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From the Resolutions presented to the House of Representatives, December, 1799. Prepared by General Henry Lee.

(On the death of General Washington).

To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens.

CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY.

(When Ambassador to the French Republic, 1796.) Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute.

"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.” "Plures efficimur, quoties metimur a vobis; semen est sanguis Christianorum." Tertullian. Apologet., c. 50.

"Corporations have no souls."

"They (Corporations) cannot commit trespass nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.”Lord Coke's Reports, Part x. p. 32.

"A Rowland for an Oliver."

"These were two of the most famous in the list of Charlemagne's twelve peers; and their exploits are rendered so ridicuously and equally extravagant by the old romancers, that from thence arose that saying amongst our plain and sensible ancestors of giving one a Rowland for his Oliver,' to signify the matching one incredible lie with another." Warburton.

"It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in their name to eat an oyster."Butler's Dyet's Dry Dinner. 1599.

"Hobson's Choice."

"Tobias Hobson was the first man in England that let out hackney horses. When a man came for a horse, he was led into the stable, where there was a great choice, but he obliged him to take the horse which stood next to the stable door; so that every customer was alike well served according to his chance, from whence it became a proverb, when what ought to be your election was forced upon you, to say ' Hobson's Choice.'"-Spectator, No. 509.

WASHINGTON IRVING.

The Creole Village.

The Almighty Dollar.

FRANCIS DUC DE ROCHEFOUCAULD.

1613-1680.

Maxim ccxvii.

Hypocrisy is a sort of homage that vice pays to virtue.

JOSEPH FOUCHE.

1763-1820.

It was worse than a crime, it was a blunder.

KING CHARLES II.

When in Parliament attending the Discussion of Lord

As good as a play.

Ross's Divorce Bill.

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