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Pan.-He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding.

Tro.-Have I not tarried?

Pan.-Ay, the grinding: but you must tarry the bolting.

Tro.-Have I not tarried?

Pan.-Ay, the bolting: but you must tarry the leavening.

Tro.--Still have I tarried.

Pan.-Ay, to the leavening: but here's yet in the word hereafter, the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking: nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips. Troilus and Cressida. Act I. Sc. 1.

N.

'Tis burnt; and so is all the meat: What dogs are these? Where is the rascal cook?

How durst you, villains, bring it from the dresser,

0. BYRON-Don Juan. Canto V. St. 47.

Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared.

d. BYRON-Don Juan, Canto V, St. 50,

Ever a glutton, at another's cost,
But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.
e. DRYDEN-Fourth Satire of Persius.
Line 58.
Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil
sends us cooks.

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And serve it thus to me that love it not?
Taming of the Shrew. Act IV. Sc. 1.
Cap.-What's there?

1st Serv.--Things for the cook, sir: but I
know not what.
Act IV. Sc. 4.
supper ready, the
strewed, cobwebs

p. Romeo and Juliet. Where's the cook? is house trimmed, rushes swept?

q. Taming of the Shrew.

Act IV. Sc. 1. We'll mend our

Will you go with me?
dinner here.
7. Comedy of Errors. Act IV.
Would the cook were of my mind!

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Psalm CIV.

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Sc. 3.

Act I.

Sc. 3.

t.
Corne, which is the staffe of life.
WINSLOW-Good News from New
England.

DANCING.

On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet.

v.

BYRON-Childe Harold. Canto III.
St. 22.

To brisk notes in cadence beating,
Glance their many twinkling feet.
GRAY-Progress of Poesy. Pt. I.
Verse 3. Line 10.

w.

And the dancing has begun now,
And the dancers whirl round gaily
In the waltz's giddy mazes,
And the ground beneath them trembles.
HEINE-Book of Songs. Don Ramiro.
St. 23.

x.

Twelve dancers are dancing, and taking no

rest,

And closely their hands together are press'd;
And soon as a dance has come to a close,
Another begins, and each merrily goes.

y.

HEINE-Dream and Life.

Merrily, merrily whirled the wheels of the dizzying dances

Under the orchard-trees and down the path to the meadows;

Old folk and young together, and children mingled among them.

a.

LONGFELLOW-Evangeline. Pt. I. IV.

Come, knit hands, and beat the ground
In a light fantastic round.

b. MILTON--Comus. Line 143.

Dancing in the chequer'd shade.

C. MILTON-L'Allegro. Line 96.

Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old-age away;

To patch, nay ogle, might become a Saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint. d. POPE--Rape of the Lock. Canto V.

Line 19.

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My curse upon thy venom'd stang,
That shoots my tortured gums alang;
And through my lugs gies many a twang,
Wi' gnawing vengeance;

Tearing my nerves wi' bitter pang,

Like racking engines!

j. BURNS-Address to the Toothache.

One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living. k.

HAZLITT--Shakespeare Jest Books.
Conceits, Clinches, Flashes and
Whimzies. No. 84.

For there was never yet philosopher
That could endure the tooth-ach patiently.
1. Much Ado About Nothing. Act V.
Sc. 1.

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This is a man's invention, and his hand.
As You Like It. Act IV. Sc. 3.
JEWELRY.

A pearl may in a toad's head dwell,
And may be found too in an oyster shell.
p. BUNYAN-Apology for his Book.
Line 89.
Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day,
But night itself does the rich gem betray.
..
COWLEY-Davideis. Bk. III. Line 37.
These gems have life in them: their colors
speak,
Say what words fail of.

r.

GEORGE ELIOT-The Spanish Gypsy.
Bk. I.

Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathom'd caves of Ocean bear.
GRAY-Elegy in a Country Churchyard.
St. 14.

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I would

earnestly advise them for their good to order this paper to be punctually served up, and to be looked upon as a part of the tea equipage.

0. ADDISON--Spectator. No. 10. No little scribbler is of wit so bare, But has his fling at the poor wedded pair. p. ADDISON The Drummer. Epilogue.

The great art in writing advertisements, is the finding out a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without a good thing may pass over unobserved, or be lost among commissions of bankrupt.

q. ADDISON-The Tatler. No. 224.

They consume a considerable quantity of our paper manufacture, employ our artisans numbers of indigent persons.

Jewels; two stones, two rich and precious in printing, and find business for great

stones,

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r.

ADDISON-Spectator. No. 367.

The office of a good newspaper is to represent well the interests of its time.

8.

Sc. 4.

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The jewel best enamelled Will lose his beauty; and though gold 'bides still,

That others touch, yet often touching will
Wear gold.

i. Comedy of Errors. Act II. Sc. 1. 'Tis plate of rare device: and jewels, Of rich and exquisite form; their value's great;

And I am something curious, being strange,
To have them in safe stowage.
j. Cymbeline. Act I. Sc. 7.

Hast.-[Within] What is 't clock?
Mus.-Upon the stroke of four.

k.

Richard III. Act III. Sc. 2.

Your ring first; And here the bracelet of the truest princess, That ever swore her faith.

1. Cymbeline. Act V. Sc. 5.

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BOVEE-Summaries of Thought.

Newspapers.

The highest reach of a News-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.

t. DE LA BRUYERE-The Characters or Manners of the Present Age. Ch. I.

The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquility, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw away as soon as he awakes.

U. DE LA BRUYERE-The Characters or Manners of the Present Age. Ch. I.

'Tis the business of the journalist to inform us when a book is published, for whom 'tis printed.

v. DE LA BRUYERE The Characters or Manners of the Present Age. Ch. I.

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Bring me no more reports.

J. Macbeth. Act V. Sc. 3.

Celia. Here comes Monsieur le Beau,
Rosa. With his mouth full of news.

Celia. Which he will put on us as pigeons feed their young.

Rosa. Then shall we be news-crammed. k. As You Like It. Act I. Sc. 2.

How goes it now, Sir? this news, which is called true, is so like an old tale, that the verity of it is in strong suspicion.

1. Winter's Tale. Act V. Sc. 2.

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An host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell Themselves, when they be felt.

aa. Antony and Cleopatra. Act II. Sc. 5. What news, lord Bardolph? every minute

now

Should be the father of some stratagem; The times are wild.

bb.

Henry IV. Act I. Sc. 1.

For whatsoever mother-wit or art Could work, he put in proof.

cc.

SPENSER--Mother Hubberd's Tale. Line 1138.

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