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...It is our country style : — In this warm shine I lie, and dream of your full Mermaid wine. * . * * Methinks the little wit I had, is lost, Since I saw...best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ? Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if...

...country style : — In this warm shine I He, and dream of your full Mermaid wine. « « * Mi tli', 11 1,- the little wit I had, is lost, Since I saw you ; for...men do the best With the best gamesters. What things hare we seen Done at the Mermaid ? Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame,...

...for a rejoinder. " The best tennis-players," says Sir Fopling Flutter, " make the best matches." • For wit is like a rest Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the best players. We hear it often said of a great author, or a great actress, that they are very stupid people...

...this warm shine I lie, and dream of your full Mermaid wine. * # # * # • Mr. Bentham. t Mr. Hazlitt. Methinks the little wit I had, is lost, Since I saw...Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the hest gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Hard words that have been So nimble,...

...shine I lie, and dream of your full Mermaid wine. # # * # # * Mr. Bentham. t Mr. Hazlitt. Alethiuks the little wit I had, is lost, Since I saw you ; for...best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if...

...we have a noble record left of the wit-combats in the celebrated epistle of Beaumont to Jonson:— " Methinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw...best With the best gamesters: what things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if...

...shine I lie, and dream of your full Mermaid wine. Mctltinks the little wit I had. is lost, Since 1 saw you ; for wit is like a rest Held up at tennis,...best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Hard words that have been Bo nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if...

...the subtlest pate Amongst us, may perchance equivocate At selling of a horse, and that's the most. Methinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw...best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ' ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, 1 leys]...

...earlier convivial intercourse of some of the illustrious band to whom the young dramatist refers : — " Methinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw...best With the best gamesters : what things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if...