The Roxburghe ballads . s prosperity lies in the ear of him thathears it, never in the tongue of him thatmakes it (Loves Labours Lost, v. 2).Walter Shandy, father of the renownedTristram, declared that Everything in this world is big with jest,and has wit in it, and instruction too—if we can but find it out.(, torn. v. cap. xxxii.) Corporal Trim acknowledged thedifficulty about jokes to be the knowing how best they may be people would amputate them altogether, in a thoroughReformation ; but such irreconcileable Puritans must be debarredthe Court, and forbidden to enter the hallowe
The Roxburghe ballads . s prosperity lies in the ear of him thathears it, never in the tongue of him thatmakes it (Loves Labours Lost, v. 2).Walter Shandy, father of the renownedTristram, declared that Everything in this world is big with jest,and has wit in it, and instruction too—if we can but find it out.(, torn. v. cap. xxxii.) Corporal Trim acknowledged thedifficulty about jokes to be the knowing how best they may be people would amputate them altogether, in a thoroughReformation ; but such irreconcileable Puritans must be debarredthe Court, and forbidden to enter the hallowed precincts of Ballad-Land. It is a goodly territory, as our editorial map will show, andwe are still content to dwell therein with a jovial company. Ithas kept life from becoming wearisome, which is more than can besaid in favour of many articles that are highly priced in the your experience makes you sad? 1 had rather have a[song] to make me merry, than experience to make me sad:and to travel for it too !. VOL. VII. R 242 Sport, that wrinkled Care derides : In le meilleur des monies 2)ossibIes the riches, public honours andadulation of time-servers are equitably withheld from falling to thelot of Good Fellows, whose contented disposition suffices to makethem happy, without need of such extraneous gewgaws. It woulddisturh the balance if the so-called prizes of success were to fall totheir share. Providence knows its own business, better than theArchbishops and Lord Chancellors, creatures of an hour. So thefat things of the earth, the wine on the lees, are apportionedgenerously to the ill-conditioned grumbling hirelings, who couldnot do without them; while the happier fellows, independent ofpresent praise or pudding, may possess their souls in peace, andhave the raciest enjoyment of a joke or a ballad as compensationfor lucre relinquished. This is a fairer Partition of the Earththan Schiller described for us in his poem. A sense of humour has been rightly claimed a
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