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“VERY BAD.”
A tyro interrogating a classical wag on the labours and sufferings of Homer, was shown the Iliad, and told that it was composed under great deprivation. Pointing to the edition, he inquired, if that was all the Iliad; to which he received as answer, that that was not all the ill he had, as Homer was obliged to sing it, to procure a little bread.
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EPIGRAM.
Young Sloeleaves vaunting he could trace
His line to Julius Caesar,
Was gall’d to hear a wag
exclaim,
“The Celtae,
if you please, Sir!”
Q IN THE CORNER.
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Inscription over the Hive public-house, in Snargate Street, Dovor.
Within this Hive
We’re all
alive,
Good liquors make us funny,
If you are dry,
Step in and try
The flavour of our honey.
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SOVEREIGNS AND GUINEAS,
And the reigns in which they have been coined.
First Sovereigns ... Henry VII ... 1485 Ditto, and half ... Henry VIII ... 1509 Ditto, ditto ... Edward VI ... 1546 Ditto, ditto ... Mary ... 1553 Ditto, ditto ... Philip & Mary ... 1554 Ditto, ditto ... Elizabeth ... 1558 Ditto, ditto ... James I ... 1603 Ditto, ditto ... Charles I ... 1625 Ditto, ditto ... Commonwealth ... 1648 Ditto, ditto ... Oliver Cromwell 1650 Guineas ... Charles II ... 1660 5l. piece, 2l. do. Guinea and half ditto ... James II ... 1684 Ditto, ditto ... Will. and Mary... 1688 Ditto, ditto ... William ... 1694 Ditto, ditto, and a quarter guinea ... Anne ... 1702 Ditto, ditto ... George I ... 1725 Ditto, ditto, but no quar. guineas ... George II ... 1726 Guineas, half do. Quarter ditto, 2 guinea piece, 5 guinea ditto ... George III ... 1760 Dble. Sovereign Sovereign, half ditto ... George IV ... 1820
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EPIGRAMS ON THE FEES DEMANDED FOR SEEING WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
Dame Godly desired the Abbey to view,
Admittance, one sixpence, demanded the
clerk,
Which modest request in astonishment wrapt
her,
How long will you such imposition pursue?
Faith ma’am, as to that we are left
in the dark,
But I think, for my part, to the end
of the Chapter.[6]
