EPITAPH ON MARSHAL SAXE.
N.B. The figures are to be pronounced in French, as un, deux, trois, &c.
Ses vertus le feront admiré de chac 1
Il avait des Rivaux, mais il triompha 2
Les Batailles qu' il gagna sont au nombre de 3
Pour Louis son grand coeur se serait mis en 4
En amour, c'était peu pour lui d'aller à 5
Nous l'aurions s'il n'eut fait que le berger Tir[3] 6
Pour avoir trop souvent passé douze, "Hic-ja" 7
Il a cessé de vivre en Decembre 8
Strasbourg contient son corps dans un Tombeau tout 9
Pour tant de "Te Deum" pas un "De profun"[4] 10
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He died at the age of 55
ROUGE.
A lady consulted St. Francis of Sales on the lawfulness of using rouge. "Why," says he, "some pious men object to it; others see no harm in it; I will hold a middle course, and allow you to use it on one cheek."
A PARLIAMENTARY JOKE.
The prevailing fashion of certain orators interlarding their speeches with frequent classical quotations, reminds us of a piece of mischievous waggery perpetrated by one of the greatest men of his time. Sheridan once electrified the country gentlemen in the House of Commons, by concluding an animated appeal to their patriotism, with a quotation from Herodotus, which they cheered most vociferously; when, in fact, he merely strung together a jumble of words, a jargon uttered on the instant, which sounded very much like Greek. Pitt, it is said, was in a convulsion of laughter all the time.