When the Earl of Kelly paid Foote a visit at his country villa, that celebrated wit took him into his garden, and, alluding to the beaming honours of his lordship’s face, said, “Pray, my lord, look over the wall upon my cucumber bed; it has had no sun this year.”
A COMPLIMENT QUIZZED.
A gentleman walking in the fields with a lady, picked a blue bell, and taking out his pencil, wrote the following lines, which, with the flower, he presented to the lady.
This pretty flower, of heavenly hue,
Must surely be allied to you;
For you, dear girl, are heavenly too.
To which the lady replied:—
If, sir, your compliment be true,
I’m sorry that I look so blue.