For he has found, and through his life will find,
’Tis easiest dealing with the firmest mind -
More just when it resists, and, when it yields, more kind.”
TALE XIX.
THE CONVERT.
A tapster is a good trade, and an old cloak makes a new jerkin;
a withered serving-man, a fresh tapster.
SHAKESPEARE, Merry Wives of Windsor.
A fellow, Sir, that I have known go about with troll-my-dames.
A Winter’s Tale.