Chapter C: S. CALVERLEY, Fly Leaves

The man who's fond precociously of stirring
Must be a spoon.

THOMAS HOOD.

_ON ONE PETER AND HIS WIFE._

Outrageous hourly with his wife was Peter;
Some do aver he has been known to beat her.
"She seems unhappy," said a friend one day;
Peter turn'd sharply: "What is that you say?
Her temper you have there misunderstood:
She dares not be unhappy if she would."

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.

A man who puts a non-natural strained sense on a
promise is no better than a robber.

_Rev. A. Debarry_, in GEORGE ELIOT's _Felix Holt_.

_DISTICH._

What is a first love worth except to prepare for a second?
What does the second love bring? Only regret for the first.

JOHN HAY, _Poems_.

In [Lady Charlotte Lindsay's] later days, when once
complimented on looking very well, she replied,
"I dare say it's true--the bloom of ugliness is
past."

LORD HOUGHTON, _Monographs_.

_IN VIRTUTEM._

Virtue we praise, yet practise not her good.
(Athenian-like) we act not what we know.
So many men do talk of Robin Hood
Who never yet shot arrow from his bow.

THOMAS FREEMAN (_circa_ 1591-1614).

Scandal--what one half the world takes a
pleasure in inventing, and the other half in
believing.

HORACE SMITH, _The Tin Trumpet_.

_All's for the best_, indeed
Such is My simple creed;
Still I must go and weed
Hard in my garden.

FREDERICK LOCKER, _London Lyrics_.

Where's the use of talking to a woman with
babbies? She's got no conscience--no conscience--it's
all run to milk.

_Bartle Massey_, in GEORGE ELIOT's _Adam Bede_.

Together must we seek
That undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No uncommercial travellers return.

_Brutus_, in G. O. TREVELYAN's _Horace at Athens_.

The Mormon's religion is singular, and his wives
are plural.