“Then I tell thee,” said the master, “he is as certainly a he ass as I am Don Quixote and thou Sancho Panza, at least so he seems to me.”—Don Quixote.

A COINCIDENCE FROM BUTLER.

Shall hair that on a crown has place

Become the subject of a case?

The fundamental law of nature

Be over-ruled by those made after?


’Tis we that can dispose alone

Whether your heirs (hairs) shall be your own.

Hudibras.