EPIGRAMS BY W. SAVAGE LANDOR. ON OBSERVING A VULGAR NAME ON THE PLINTH BARBARIANS must we always be? LYING IN STATE. Now from the chamber all are gone EPIGRAMS FROM PUNCH. THE CAUSE. LISETTE has lost her wanton wiles- A speck on a front tooth? IRISH PARTICULAR. Shiel's oratory's like bottled Dublin stout- ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER. A poor man went to hang himself, But treasure chanced to find: He pocketed the miser's pelf And left the rope behind. His money gone, the miser hung Thus each the other's wants supplied, STICKY. I'm going to seal a letter, Dick, I have not got a single stick, THE POET FOILED. To win the maid the poet tries, She still appears a-verse to him. BLACK AND WHITE. The Tories vow the Whigs are black as night, His may be called the equinoctial line. INQUEST-NOT EXTRAORDINARY. Great Bulwer's works fell on Miss Basbleu's head, DOMESTIC ECONOM Y. Said Stiggins to his wife, one day, If things go on in this queer way, The dame replied, in words discreet, If we can make but one end meat, ON SEEING AN EXECUTION. One morn, two friends before the Newgate drop, To see a culprit throttled, chanced to stop: "Alas!" cried one, as round in air he spun, "That miserable wretch's race is run.' "True," said the other, drily, "to his cost, The race is run-but, by a neck 'tis lost." A VOICE, AND NOTHING ELSE. "I wonder if Brougham thinks as much as he talks," Said a punster, perusing a trial: "I vow, since his lordship was made Baron Vaux, He's been Vaux et præterea nihil!” THE AMENDE HONORABLE. Quoth Will," On that young servant-maid THE CZAR. Czar NICHOLAS is so devout, they say, BAS BLEU. Ma'amselle Bas Bleu, erudite virgin, No wonder that, Ma'amselle, the love And urge is ever prone; She knows where'er there cease to be She needs must lose her own! TO A RICH YOUNG WIDOW. I will not ask if thou canst touch Those silent notes of thine are such I'll make no question if thy skill THE RAILWAY OF LIFE. Short was the passage through this earthly vale. A CONJUGAL CONUNDRUM. Which is of greater value, prythee, say, The Bride or Bridegroom?—must the truth be told? Alas, it must! The Bride is given away— The Bridegroom's often regularly sold. NUMBERS ALTERED. The lounger must oft, as he walks through the streets, GRAMMAR FOR THE COURT OF BERLIN His majesty you should not say of Fritz, THE EMPTY BOTTLE. WILLIAM AYTOUN Aн, liberty! how like thou art A touch of steel-a hand-a gush- And I had drunk that English beer! And what remains ?-An empty shell! THE DEATH OF DOCTOR MORRISON. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. WHAT's the news?-Why, they say Death has killed Dr. Morri son. The Pill-maker? Yes. Then Death will be sorry soon. |