LORD DUNCANNON.

All the lamps
Of nuptial love are lighted, and burn pure,
As if they drew their brightness from thy blushes.
Thy envious rivals, conscious of thy right,
Approve superior charms, and join to praise thee.

HILL.

DOCTOR GHM.

Have not I
Known him a common rogue, come fiddling in
To the Osteria * with a tumbling whore,
And when he had done all his forc'd tricks, been glad
Of a poor spoonful of dead. wine, with fleas in't.

-All his ingredients
Are a sheep's gall, a roasted bitch's marrow,
Some few fod earwigs, pounded caterpillars,
A little capon’s grease, and fasting spittle :
I know 'em to a dram.

B. JONSON.

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LADY SH BY..

I am a garment worn, a vessel crack'd,
A load unty'd, a lilly trod upon! !
A fragrant flower crop'd by another hand,
My colour fully'd, and my

odour chang'd!

BEAUMONT.

* Some commentators read Adelphia. This very extraordinary genius has been already hinted at under the title of Doctor ADELPHI: See page 20.

DOCTOR PRIESTLY.
Philosophy consists not
In airy schemes and idle speculations.

THOMSON,

Mr. T. TNSD.

Like a player,
Bellowing his passion, till he break the string,
And his rack'd voice jar to the audience.

SHAKESP.

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MR. BANNISTER.
I can counterfeit the deep tragedian;
Speech and look big, and pry on every side;
Tremble and start at wagging of a straw,
Intending deep fufpicion. Ghaftly looks
Are at my service too, like unforced smiles :
And both are ready in their offices,
At any time to grace my stratagems.

SHAKESP.

The JUNTO. How like conspirators, at their first meeting, With caution we gaze silent on each other, Expecting who shall start the business firft.

Destruction hangs on every word we speak, On every thought, till the concluding stroke Determines all, and closes our design,

Tate,

ADDISON.

QUI CAPIT, ILLE FACIT.
Whereat the gentleman began to stare,
My friends, he cried, px take you

care!
That from a patriot of distinguish'd note,
Have bled and purg'd me to a single vote.

LORD ADVOCATE OF SC-TL-D Why, what a wasp tongu'd and impatient fool Art thou, to break into this woman's mood, Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own? SHAKESP.

O, he's as tedious
As a tir'd horse, or a railing wife :
Worse than a smoaky house. I'd rather live
With cheese and garlick, in a windmill, far,
Than feed on cates, and have him talk to me.

Ibid.

Mr. SYK-S.

All upstarts, insolent in place, Remind us of their vulgar race.

GAY.

CAPTAIN O'K-LLY. Captain! thou abominable damnd cheater, art thou not ashamed. to be called captain? If captains were of my mind, they would truncheon you out of taking their names upon you, before you have earned them. You a captain! you Ilave! for what? For tearing a poor whore's ruff in a bawdy house? He a captain! hang him, rogue, he lives upon mouldy stew'd prunes and dry'd cates. A captain! these villains will make the word captain as odious as the word occupy; which was an excellent good word, before it was ill-forted.

SHAKRSP..

THE TRADING CONSTABLES.
Think not that treachery can be just,
Take not informers words on trust.
They ope their hand to every pay,
And
you

and me by turns betray.

GAY.

LORD NORTH-PTON.

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A traveller! by my

faith
you

have great reason to be fad: I fear you have fold your own lands to see other men's; then, to have seen much, and to have nothing, is to have rich

poor hands.

SHAKESP.

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eyes, and

JUSTICE ADGT-N.
God help me, there are but two of us, and one is an ass. Ibid.

COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON.
And beads, and pray'r books are the toys of

age.

Pope,

EARL SPENCER.

He's generous, grateful, affable and brave,
But then he knows no limit to his passion;
The tempest-beaten bark is not so toss'd,
As is his reason when those winds arise.

I lie as open to the gusts of passion,
As the bare shore to every beating surge.

YOUNG.

DRYDEN.