He ne’er clothed himself as modern Britons do:
For if like theirs had been his usual covering,
We cannot help remarking, by-the-bye,
That old Israel’s far-renowned sovereign,
Little wiser was, dear sir, than you and I.
C.O.
Tait’s Magazine, 1858.
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Our Serenaders.
[“The plaintiff,” Mr. Justice Mathew decided, in an action brought by a literary man to prevent a noise on a neighbour’s premises, “contended for a condition of felicity which could never be obtained in London.”—Daily Paper.]