After all ’tis the pleasantest way,
To bear up as we can ’gainst our sorrow,
And if things go not easy to-day,
Let us hope they’ll go better to-morrow.—
Ri-tol-de-rol, etc.
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O. P. Q. Philander Smiff, of The Figaro, (London,) once suggested that the play of Hamlet might be made use of as an advertising medium, with a few minor alterations, as, to take the Soliloquy for example:—
“To sleep, or not to sleep—that is the question,
Whether ’tis well to suffer indigestion;
Or bear the burden of a dozen ills,