6.—“Lightly they’ll speak of the spirit that’s gone.”—Wolfe.
7.—“That we may call these delicate creatures ours—
7.—“But not their appetites.”—Shakespeare.
Country Critic (who the previous evening patronised “Muggins’ Travelling Theatre”). They poets just are clever chaps, and noa mistake! I see a thing last night as I never wishes to see not noa better. Darned if I doant thin’k that Mariar Martin, or the Red Baarn arn’t the best play as ever Muster Shakespeare wroat!—(Period 1865.)
MOTLEY’S KINGDOM
By Brobert Rowning.
There once was a time, long ago,
When the sages were rulers, you know,
When men from all parts of the globe
Would seek them, their wisdom to probe,
And ask their opinion (no counsel’s
Like that which your lawyer in town sells.