GRAMMATICAL ADVICE.

WHEN man and wife at odds fall out,
Let Syntax be your tutor;
'Twixt masculine and feminine,

What should one be but neuter?

BEARDING A COLONEL.

A PARODY.

O'CONNELL wrote the following severe epigram on Colonels Sibthorp, Percival, and Verner, the former of whom was remarkable for the vastness of his beard, while the two others were deficient in that respect:

THREE colonels, in three distant counties born,
Lincoln, Armagh, and Sligo did adorn.

The first in matchless impudence surpassed,
The next in bigotry-in both the last.
The force of nature could no further go-
To beard the first, she shaved the other two.

A WISH.

MAY this book continue in motion,
And its leaves every day be unfurled,
Till an ant to the dregs drink the ocean,
And a tortoise crawl over the world.

A FINALE.

THOSE epigrams my friends commend,
That with a turn least thought of, end;
Then, sure, a tip-top one they'll call
This, which concludes with none at all.

BY THE REV. JOSIAH RALPH, SEBERGHAN,
CUMBERLAND, (circa 1730).

ON THE SEXES.

PAGE.

Deformity

51

On Arabella importuning for
Money

On the Death of the Hottentot
Venus

On the Marriage of Captain
Foote with Miss Patten.... 52
Matrimonial Jars

On the Marriage of Ebenezer
Sweet and Jane Lemon.
On the Departure of a Count,
and the receipt of a Musical
Score..

Woman's Charms

The World a Prison
Matrimonial

The Best Fee-the Female
Multiplication..

On the Marriage of Mr.

Miss Burn

Woman's Will.

Man's Will

Woman

On a Stolen Lock of Hair..

Matrimony

to

To a Young Lady on her Mar

riage with Mr. Gee......

PAGE.

60

On the Marriage of J. Thomas

to E. Lott

Shifts

On Miss Tree the singer
Engaging.

The Gambler Married

The Affirmative

The Union

Which Men are preferable
A Warm Reception...
The Amende Honourable
American Marriage

53 A Home Argument..

On Miss Anna Bread
The Sleeping Partner.
Short and Long

On Mr. Hayne and Miss Foote
On a Woman singing Ballads

to obtain Money to bury her
Husband

....

Abel and Mabel, by C. Marot.

The Reverse...

The Two Knots

Forbidden Fruit

Upon a Wilful Helpmate

56 On a Woman that fell out with her Husband

A Ready Answer-Jack Wilkes Attraction at Home and Abroad 57 The Metamorphosis

Courage misplaced..
Second Thoughts are best..
Matrimonial Caution..
Woman's Will..

66

On Mr. Husband's Marriage.. 68
The Devil's Influence..

Answered

59 To Mrs. Mutable..

On the Marriage of a Fellow of
All Soul's College

The Henpecked Dandy
On Waltzing

The Round of Fashion

The Latest Fashion

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