KNOW THYSELF.

One bowing to me, I'd seen long ago,

Said I, "Who art?" He said, "I do not know;"

I said, "I know thee;" "I," said he, "know you;

But he who knows himself I never knew."

MEUM AND TUUM.

The law decides questions of Meum and Tuum, By kindly arranging to make the thing Suum.

THE WORLD.

The world's a book, writ by the eternal art Of the Great Author; printed in man's heart; 'Tis falsely printed, though divinely penn'd, And all the errata will appear at the end.

THE POWER OF THE PINCH.

Quarles.

O'erwhelm'd with cares, and toss'd by troubles

sore,

I take a pinch-and half my sorrow's o'er : The potent spell ne'er fails to work,—I sneeze; Another pinch-I'm happy and at ease.

THE BEST STOCK.

Money, they say, is evil's root,
But I most justly doubt it:

Can we expect good thriving fruit
From any stock without it?

THE PROPER GENDER.

When man and wife at odds fall out,
Let Syntax be your tutor;
'Twixt masculine and feminine,
What should one be but neuter?

AN AMERICAN EPIGRAM.

In England, rivers are all males-
For instance, Father Thames.
Whoever in Columbia sails,

Finds them Ma'amselles or Dames;
For there the softer sex presides,

Aquatic, I assure ye;

And Mrs Sippi rolls her tides
Responsive to Miss Souri.

A NATURAL FACT.

No nutmeg can the largest be in nature :
The greatest one may come across a grater.

FASHION 7. RIGHT.

"What's fashionable, I'll maintain,
Is always right," cries sprightly Jane;
"Ah, would to heaven," cries graver Sue,
"What's right were fashionable too."

THE PHILOSOPHY OF SPEECH.

If you from slips

Would keep your lips,

Five things observe with care:

Of whom you speak,

To whom you speak,

And how, and when, and where.

PROCRASTINATION.

When Sloth puts urgent business by,
"To-morrow's a new day," she 'll cry;
And all her morrows prove it true-
They're never used, and therefore new.

THE FIRST TEMPTER.

'Tis said that we caused man to grieve;
The jest is somewhat stale:

The devil it was who tempted Eve;

And is not he a male?

A Lady.

MARRIAGE.

He who marries once may be
Pardon'd his infirmity;
He who marries twice is mad;
But if you should find a fool
Marrying thrice, don't spare the lad;
Flog him, flog him back to school.

A WISE PAIR.

Abel wants to marry Mabel;
Well, that's very wise of Abel;
But Mabel won't at all have Abel;
Well, that's wiser still of Mabel.

Gotz.

Marot.

ROADS TO HEAVEN.

I think that friars and their hoods,
Their doctrines and their maggots,
Have lighted up too many feuds,
And far too many fagots.

I think, while bigots storm and frown,

And fight for two or seven,

That there are fifty roads to town,

And rather more to heaven.

Praed.

WHAT IS TRUTH?

Truth, they say, lies in a well;

A paradox, forsooth!

For if it lies, as people tell,

How can it then be truth?

THE BASIS OF LAW.

Jack says that of law common sense is the base,
And, doubtless, in that he is right;
Though certain am I, that in many a case
The foundation is quite out of sight.

MAN AND MONEY.

Man and money mutual friendship show,
Man makes false money, money makes men so.

THE ONE THING NEEDFUL.

He that has money is bother'd about it;
And he that has none is bother'd without it.

WHAT BEFELL HOMER.

That Homer should a bankrupt be,
Is not so very Odd-d'ye-see:
If it be true as I'm instructed,

So Ill-he-had his books conducted.