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Lo! what modicums of wit he utters!-He is bought and fold among thofe of any judgment like a Barbarian flave.—I can buy nine fparrows for a penny, and his pia mater is not worth the ninth part of a fparrow. He wears his wit in his belly, and his gutts in his head.

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He that is proud eats up himself, pride his own glafs, his own trumpet, his own chonicle.

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For women are but rofes, whose fair flower

Being once difplaid, doth fall that very hour.

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* Mr. KG.

-Each your doing

(So fingular in each particular)

Crowns what you are doing in the prefent deeds,

That all your acts are perfect.

The Mifs H—k—s.

Set them down

For fluttish fpoils of opportunity,

And daughters of the game.

Winter's Tale.

Troilu, and Crefida.

Mifs LP

She is not forward, but modeft as the dove,
She's not hot, but temperate as the morn,
For patience she will prove a fecond Grizzel,
And Roman Lucrece for her chastity.

Taming of the Shrew.

* There is fcarce at prefent on our theatresany one actor who excels in fo great a variety of parts as Mr. K- -g. But his integrity and honefty, his friendly and fociable difpofition, render him as much refpected and beloved in private life, as his various theatrical talents make him admired in public life.

L- -d

Lord N

Go to, go to;

You take a precipice for no leap of danger,

And woo your own destruction.

L-d M

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D.

Henry 8th.

Ab! My good Lord, If your will pafs,

I fhall both find your Lordship, Judge and Juror,

You are so merciful.

Henry 8th.

• MD ST-PE.

Oh he was drunk, Sir, above an hour

ago, his eyes were fet at eight o'clock in the morning.

Twelfth Night.

* This Mr. St―――'s fupreme pleasure is to entertain his friends with a dance on a table, but if they don't take care to accommodate him with a very large one, 'tis ten to one if he does not ex ceed the boundaries of it, by an unlucky flip.

Archbishop

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Archbishop of Y--k.

Love and meekness, Lord,

Become a Churchman, better than ambition.

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A goodly portly man i'faith and corpulent, of a chearful look, and as I think his age fome fifty; and now I remember me, his name is Falftaff.-If that man should be lewdly given he deceives me.

Jolly D-K, and Ald-n H-Y.
I am accurft to rob in this thief's company.

Henry IV. ft part.

*Falftaff, however virtuously given, unbends him felf after the fatigues of State, with two Ladies as rampant as Mrs. Dorothy Tearsheet.-The fat Knight pays a compliment, however to decency by concealing his real name, he is called Mr.

Sir

Sir GS1LE.

This Good, this boneft Man:

Few of you deferve that title.

Hen. 8th.

+ Lord D.

I muft to my holy work again.

TH.

Rich. 3d.

The Conftitution and Liberty of England must owe their fafety and prefervation to Gentlemen of large independent eftates; to men of firm principles and found morals.-To fuch as are inflexible to the inticements of a Court, and fuperior to Minifterial corruption. Forty or fifty fuch men as Sir George Sille in the lower Hse, would render the Parliament popular and the nation happy.

+ That the Bishops and the pious L-D--th fhould be advocates for the American War, may feem to fome honeft people a little furprizing. That his lay Lordfhip fhould when Secretary for the American department, receive the Petition of the Colonies, brought by Mr. Penn, in Sept. 1775, and after keeping it some time, tell the honest Quaker, No answer would be given to it-muft if his Lordship has any feeling, afflict him even to his dying hour: For the rejecting that petition with contempt, deprived Great Britain of thirteen Colonies, and rendered America Independent.

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