A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect. HORACE PORTER (1837-—), — a bon-mot in the Cleveland- I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. RICHARD RUMBOLD, on the scaffold, 1685. History of England (Macaulay), Chap. v. The last link is broken That bound me to thee, And the words thou hast spoken FANNY STEERS: Song. Old Simon the cellarer keeps a rare store Of Malmsey and Malvoisie. G. W. BELLAMY: Simon the Cellarer. Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins.1 SCROPE DAVIES: Letter to Thomas Raikes, May 25, 1835. She's all my fancy painted her; WILLIAM MEE: Alice Gray. Stately and tall he moves in the hall, KATE FRANKLIN : Life at Olympus, Lady's Book, Vol. xxiii. p. 33. When the sun's last rays are fading Into twilight soft and dim. THEODORE L. BARKER: Thou wilt think of me again. Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee MRS. (DAVID) PORTER: Thou hast wounded the Spirit. 1 Babylon in ruins is not so melancholy a spectacle (as a distracted person). ADDISON: Spectator, No. 421. Rattle his bones over the stones! He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns! THOMAS NOEL: The Pauper's Ride. In the days when we went gypsying A long time ago; The lads and lassies in their best Were dress'd from top to toe. EDWIN RANSFORD: In the Days when we went Gypsying. Speak gently! 't is a little thing Dropp'd in the heart's deep well; G. W. LANGFORD: Speak gently. Hope tells a flattering tale,1 Miss WROTHER: The Universal Songster. Vol. ii. p. 86. Nose, nose, nose, nose! And who gave thee that jolly red nose? RAVENSCROFT: Deuteromela, Song No. 7.2 (1609.) The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell her daughter that her daughter's daughter hath a daughter." GEORGE HAKEWILL: Apologie. Book iii. Chap. v. Sect. 9.8 1 Hope told a flattering tale, That Joy would soon return; Ah! naught my sighs avail, For Love is doomed to mourn. ANONYMOUS (air by Giovanni Paisiello, 1741– 1816): Universal Songster, vol. i. p. 320. 2 BEAUMONT and Fletcher: The Knight of the Burning Pestle, act i. 8 Hakewill translated this from the "Theatrum Vitæ Humanæ," vol. iii Betwixt the stirrup and the ground, Mercy I ask'd; mercy I found.1 WILLIAM CAMDEN: Remains. Begone, dull Care! I prithee begone from me! Much of a muchness. PLAYFORD: Musical Companion. (1687.) VANBRUGH: The Provoked Husband, Act i. Sc. 1. Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John, The bed be blest that I lye on. THOMAS ADY: A Candle in the Dark, p. 58. (London, 1656.) Junius, Aprilis, Septémq; Nouemq; tricenos, WILLIAM HARRISON: Description of Britain (prefixed to Thirty dayes hath Nouember, And all the rest have xxxi. RICHARD GRAFTON: Chronicles of England. (1590.) Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, All the rest have thirty-one; - Excepting leap year, that's the time The Return from Parnassus. (London, 1606.) Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February alone, Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine. Common in the New England States 1 Altered by Johnson (1783), Between the stirrup and the ground, Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth, Every other thirty-one Except the second month alone. Common in Chester County, Penn., among the Friends. "Be of good comfort, Master Ridley," Latimer cried at the crackling of the flames. "Play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out." There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies show; A heavenly paradise is that place, Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow. An Howres Recreation in Musike. (1606. Set to music by Richard Those cherries fairly do enclose Of orient pearl a double row; Which when her lovely laughter shows, They look like rosebuds filled with snow. A vest as admired Voltiger had on, Which from this Island's foes his grandsire won, Obliged to triumph in this legacy.2 Ibid. The British Princes, p. 96. (1669.) When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman? Lines used by John Ball in Wat Tyler's Rebellion.3 1 I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out. -2 Esdras xiv. 25. A painted vest Prince Voltiger had on, Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won, have been ascribed to Blackmore, but suppressed in the later editions of his poems. 3 HUME: History of England, vol. i. chap. xvii, note 8. Now bething the, gentilman, MS. of the Fifteenth Century (British Museum). Use three Physicians, Still-first Dr. Quiet; Next Dr. Mery-man, And Dr. Dyet.2 Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum (edition of 1607). The King of France went up the hill The King of France came down the hill, Pigges Corantoe, or Newes from the North.8 From The New England Primer. In Adam's fall We sinned all. My Book and Heart Must never part. Young Obadias, David, Josias,- Peter denyed His Lord, and cryed. 1 The same proverb existed in German :— So Adam reutte, und Eva span, 2 See Swift, page 293. AGRICOLA: Proverbs, No. 254. 8 A quarto tract printed in London in 1642, p. 3. This is called "Old Tarlton's Song." 4 As early as 1691, Benjamin Harris, of Boston, advertised as in press the second impression of the New England Primer. The oldest copy known to be extant is 1737. |