J. R. Planché, Songs and Poems.

HE wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.

George Eliot, Middlemarch.

WEET maids in wimples fair y-wrought,
Shall smile upon thee. Thou shalt say,
Oft, by thy halidame, there's nought
So gracious and so fair as they,
But what thy halidame may be,
I trow 'tis useless asking me.

H. Savile Clarke.

E vrai honnête homme est celui qui ne se pique de rien.