By the way, it would be difficult, to say the least of it, to prove that the slang phrase "shut up" and the Americanism "say" were never used in A.D. 1642, in the sense in which they are used in 1890, but they are scarcely characteristic of the modes of expression at that particular period.
Baron De Book-Worms.
A SONG WITH WORDS.
(Suggestively dedicated to Lord Bury.)
Oh! tell me not that you will "clic"
When I can but "electricate,"
Or, "propelected," merely "tric"
A distance I might well "volate."
For if to "Faradate" or "Volt"