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.]