The charge is prepar'd, the lawyers are met, The judges all rang'd; a terrible show! Ibid. Act iii. Sc. 2. All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd. Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan. Adieu, she cried, and wav'd her lily hand. FABLES. Long experience made him sage. Ibid. The Shepherd and the Philosopher. Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil Ibid. The Mother, the Nurse, and the Fairy. Is there no hope? the sick man said; The Sick Man and the Angel. While there is life there's hope, he cried. Ibid. Those who in quarrels interpose Must often wipe a bloody nose. The Mastiffs. 1 'midnight oil,' a common phrase, used by Quarles, Shenstone, Cowper, Lloyd, and others. 2 Ελπίδες ἐν ζωοῖσιν, ἀνέλπιστοι δὲ θανόντες. Theocritus, Id. iv. Line 42. Ægroto, dum anima est, spes est. Cicero, Epist. ad Att. ix. 10. Gay continued.] And when a lady's in the case, The Hare and many Friends. Life is a jest, and all things show it ; LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE. 1690-1762. maxim be great my virtue's guide, Let this And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.2 The Lover. Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet ; Satire should, like a polish'd razor keen, 1 A fugitive piece, written on a window by Lady Montague, after her marriage (1713). The last lines were taken from Overbury : In part to blame is she The Wife, St. 36. 2 What say you to such a supper with such a woman? Byron, Note to Letter on Bowles. 304 Macklin.- Green. - Theobald. KANE O'HARA. -- 1782. Pray, goody, please to moderate the rancour of your tongue ; Why flash those sparks of fury from your eyes? CHARLES MACKLIN. 1690-1797. The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it. Love à la Mode. Act ii. Sc. 1. MATTHEW GREEN. 1696–1737. Fling but a stone, the giant dies. The Spleen. Line 93. LOUIS THEOBALD. 1691 - 1744. None but himself can be his parallel.1 The Double Falsehood. 1 Quæris Alcidæ parem? Nemo est nisi ipse. Seneca, Hercules Furens, Act i. Sc. 1. And but herself admits no parallel. Massinger, Duke of Milan, Act iv. Sc. 3. JOHN BYROM. 1691-1763. God bless the King, I mean the faith's defender; Take time enough: all other graces Advice to Preach Slow. Some say, compar'd to Bononcini, Is scarcely fit to hold a candle. On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini.2 As clear as a whistle. Epistle to Lloyd. Bone and Skin, two millers thin, Epigram on Two Monopolists. 1 Learn to read slow: all other graces Will follow in their proper places. Walker, Art of Reading. 2 "Nourse asked me if I had seen the verses upon Handel and Bononcini, not knowing that they were mine." Byrom's Remains (Chetham Soc.), Vol. i. p. 173. The last two lines have been attributed to Swift and Pope. See Scott's edition of Swift, and Dyce's edition of Pope. T 306 Chesterfield.-Mallett. EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. 1694-1773. Sacrifice to the Graces. Letter. March 9, 1748. Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value. Letter. July 1, 1748. Style is the dress of thoughts. Letter. Nov. 24, 1749. I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world. The World. No. 101. Unlike my subject now shall be my song, Impromptu Lines. The dews of the evening most carefully shun,— Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. Advice to a Lady in Autumn. DAVID MALLETT. 1700-1765. While tumbling down the turbid stream, Tyburn. |