Fun for every day in the year . ntemptible in private life, andJbrmidable in public. CLAUDE SANGUIN. Claude Sanguin, a French poet, who died at the close ofthe last century, having had his house coubumed bylightning, sent the fohowing ingenious card to Lewis XIV,on the occasion. The monarch .ii ouce felt tiie delicacyof the poets verses, and the disu.^s •.;f l:is situatioti, andfchearfully ordered him the one thousand crowns, whichwere the object of his deuiand To eno;age in your matters belongs not to me,This, S</;6, inexcusable freedom woul<J be;But yet, when review^Ud: niv m-s- ritS p
Fun for every day in the year . ntemptible in private life, andJbrmidable in public. CLAUDE SANGUIN. Claude Sanguin, a French poet, who died at the close ofthe last century, having had his house coubumed bylightning, sent the fohowing ingenious card to Lewis XIV,on the occasion. The monarch .ii ouce felt tiie delicacyof the poets verses, and the disu.^s •.;f l:is situatioti, andfchearfully ordered him the one thousand crowns, whichwere the object of his deuiand To eno;age in your matters belongs not to me,This, S</;6, inexcusable freedom woul<J be;But yet, when review^Ud: niv m-s- ritS pasl,Ofyoiir majestys incouu: ;he ruidi \ c isr,All counted (IVe still the mbicin e q lite clear,)Your revenues ont hunrired fni^lOftn v^^? ?:Hence one hundred thousand p:rd^/ i vo r- , brings four thousand rrorrUi, in eu^k kQuryTo answer the calls of iuy present iistrefiai,Which hascaisdiij i«vv ro intryreceMay I be allowed to req-^est, n jL]e Htre^Oi;i/our timejiftetn minutes^ bciufc i AN INNKEKPERS RJLGUliW A PATIENT COMPANION. A gentleman who once introduced his brother to John-son, was very earnest to recommend him to the doctor^sattention, which he did by saying, Doctor, when wehave sat together some time, youll find my brother veryentertaining. ^^ Sir/ said Johnson, * 1 cannot wait? VIRTUES OF PORTER. A man who had been quaffing porter till he was com-pktely drunk, hicciipd out, ihat porter was both meat anddrink Soon after, going home, he tunibied into a-fiitch ;on which a companion who was leading him observed,that it was not Only meat and drink to him, but washingand lodging too, A DEFICtENCY ACCOUNTED FOfU An Oxford vintner complaining to his man that therewere no bottles left, though lie had laid in a large stockvery lately. * No wonder, says the fellow, no wonder !for all those that were full measure you have broken; andall those that were not full measure the scholars have bro-ken. AN innkeepers REGRET. Joseph II. emperor of
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