In vain, without a patron's aid, I've pray'd, and preach'd-and preach'd, and pray'd, Such vain eclat let others share; I ask not praise, but bread! You'll sure allow, 'tis most provoking, 39 'T were better sure, if many a father Yet scarcely nine dark lustres" past, a An awful warning giving; Such dire reverse, good Lord! forbid it; Help me, and let me say, you did it;" On whom depends my living! Chapter Coffee-house. HUMPHRY BANYAN, A. M. OPTICAL DECEPTIONS.. [From the Morning Chronicle, Oct. 5.] OM runs from his wife, to get rid of his trouble; TOM He drinks and he drinks till he sees all things double; But when he has ceas'd wine and brandy to mingle, O! what would he give could he see himself single! J. 3 IMPROMPTU ON THE MARRIAGE OF MISS SNOW TO MR. FROST NOW Snow is turn'd to Frost, she finds And, though dissolv'd in ecstacies, Yet faster still she feels the ties; Nor less is Frost, by all advice, Because her husband breaks the ice. October 8. ON A LATE RETURN FROM INDIA. WITH scarce a covering o'er his b―m, And in some years return'd again, LEXICON FISTY-CUFF-GLUTTON. IN USUM STUDIOSÆ JUVENTUTIS, ་ THE Fancy. This is the general term for the fistycuff art itself, and the love of it. One in the fancy means a practitioner, whether for love or money. Sometimes the epithet elegant is used; but we disapprove this as pleonastic; for it should seem to imply, that the elegance of the art might be disputed, which is impossible. > A Glutton.-This is one immoderately greedy of the passive delights of a fisty-cuff battle; one so addicted to the luxuries of being beaten, that he will continue to feast upon them long after every ordinary appetite could could be satisfied; and will thus give more trouble to the person who entertains him, than any reasonable guest would require of his host. A Milling. A sound threshing... A Doubler. A blow that makes the modest, but grateful, receiver, double himself up. A Floorer.-A knock-down flat, in any way or mode of execution in the art. The Knock-down was clean.This is when the merit of a blow is so decisively intelligible, that the receiver, without one moment's allowance for criticism or hesitation, demonstrates the fact by an immediate fall. - Nobbing. Giving smart, but not the most effective, blows, on the skull. A Rally Fighting on the offensive, instead of the defensive, after a supposed inferiority in the preceding round. Fibbing Getting an adversary's head under the left arm, and then being as bountiful to it as possible: with the right. TANTUM FOR TANTUM. [From the Morning Chronicle, Oct. 10.] HERE are more ways than one of thriving THE In crowded towns, 't is said: Some villains rob and cheat the living, And others steal the dead. Whoe'er in London town has been, Has heard of resurrection-men, Fellows who raise dead bodies from their lodgment, One of this sacrilegious pack, Savage in mind as any Turk, With mattock, shovel, and a sack, Stept into a gin-shop, the sign of the Whale, Here, Here, as it happ'd, a hardy tar Had been so often to the bar, That Jack at last no more could pour in, The signal-tap Albinus hears, With joy elate he trips down stairs, But, lo! în the morning, how great his surprise, By his mess to be sew'd up alive in his cot. The Doctor, though stagger'd, unloosen'd the sack, 66 a man that was quick.” "It is so much the better," returns Resurrection; "To so much convenience why start you objection? If I've had your guinea, Sir, you have had tantum; And you've only to slaughter the man when you want him." EPIGRAM could be satisfied; and will thus give more trouble to the person who entertains him, than any reasonable guest would require of his host. A Milling. A sound threshing, A Doubler. A blow that makes the modest, but grateful, receiver, double himself up. A Floorer.-A knock-down flat, in any way or mode of execution in the art. The Knock-down was clean.-This is when the merit of a blow is so decisively intelligible, that the receiver, without one moment's allowance for criticism or hesitation, demonstrates the fact by an immediate fall. -- Nobbing. Giving smart, but not the most effective, blows, on the skull. A Rally Fighting on the offensive, instead of the defensive, after a supposed inferiority in the preceding round. Fibbing.Getting an adversary's head under the left arm, and then being as bountiful to it as possible with the right. TANTUM FOR TANTUM. [From the Morning Chronicle, Oct. 10.] HERE are more ways than one of thriving THER In crowded towns, 't is said: Some villains rob and cheat the living, And others steal the dead. Whoe'er in London town has been, Has heard of resurrection-men, Fellows who raise dead bodies from their lodgment, One of this sacrilegious pack, With mattock, shovel, and a sack, Stept into a gin-shop, the sign of the Whale, Here, |