ies, a dish of prawns, and cheese." At
the same period, a supper-dish, when the king supped with his mistress,
Lady Castlemaine, was "a chine of beef roasted."

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OLD EPITAPH.

As I was, so are ye,
As I am, you shall be.
That I had, that I gave,
That I gave, that I have.
Thus I end all my cost,
That I left, that I lost.

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IMPROMPTU TO ----, ON HER MARRIAGE WITH MR. WILLIAM P----.

When ladies they wed,
It ever is said
That their _freedom_ away they have thrown;
But you've not done so,
For we very well know
You will have a _Will_ of your own.

C.K.W.

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PAINTERS.

Lavater affirms, that no one whose person is not well formed can become
a good physiognomist. Those painters were the best whose persons were
the handsomest. Reubens, Vandyke, and Raphael possessed three gradations
of beauty, and possessed three gradations of painting.

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ELYSIAN SOUP.

The French have a soup which they call "_Potage a la Camerani_" of which
it is said "a single spoonful will lap the palate in Elysium; and while
one drop remains on the tongue, each other sense is eclipsed by the
voluptuous thrilling of the lingual nerves!"

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A JAPANESE BEAUTY.

Her face was oval, her features regular, and her little mouth, when
open, disclosed a set of shining, black lacquered teeth; her hair was
black, and rolled up in the form of a turban, without any ornament,
except a few tortoiseshell combs; she had sparkling, dark eyes, was
about the middle size, and elegantly formed; her dress consisted of six
wadded silk garments, similar to our night-gowns, each fastened round
the lower part of the waist by a separate band, and drawn close together
from the girdle downwards; they were all of different colours, and the
uppermost was black.

U.

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GOOD LIVING.

I hate a fellow who was never young; he is like a dull Italian year,
where the trees are always in leaf, and when the only way of knowing the
difference of the seasons is by referring to an almanack. The
inconstancy of the spring may surely be excused for the steady warmth of
summer and the rich plenty of autumn; then comes the hoar of winter old
gentleman, and closes the scene not ungra