C. S. Calverley, Fly Leaves.

HE bulk of men in our days are just as immoral as they were in Charles the Second's; the only difference is that they are incomparably more stupid, and that instead of decking their immorality with the jewels of wit, they clumsily try to cover it with the tarpaulin of respectability.

Mr. Luke, in Mallock's New Republic.

WHY WIVES MAKE NO WILLS.

EN dying make their wills, why cannot wives?
Because wives have their wills during their lives.

R. Hugman (circa 1628).