unk with swipes, and Dicky drunk with wine.

THE CONSTRUCTION OF VERBS.

THE NOMINATIVE CASE AFTER THE VERB.

Verbs substantive, as sum, I am, forem, I might be, fio, I am made,
existo, I am; verbs passive of calling, as nominor, I am named,
appellor, I am called, dicor, I am said, vocor, I am called, nuncupor, I
am named, and the like to them, as videor, I am seen, habeor, I am
accounted, existimor, I am thought, have the same cases before and after
them, as

Adeps viridis est summum bonum:

Green fat is the chief good.

Even among the ancients, _turtles_ were the emblems of love; which, next
to eating and drinking, has always been the first object of human
pursuit. This fact proves, very satisfactorily, two things, first, their
proficiency in the science of gastronomy; and, secondly, their extreme
susceptibility of the tender passion.

Pileus vocatur tegula:

A hat is called a tile.

[Illustration: TILED IN.]

Likewise all verbs in a manner admit after them an adjective, which
agrees with the nominative case of the verb, in case, gender, and
number, as

Pii orant taciti. --_Eton Gram._

The pious pray silently.

Is this a sly rap at the Quakers?

THE GENITIVE CASE AFTER THE VERB.

Sum requires a genitive case as often as it signifies possession, duty,
sign, or that which relates to any thing; as

Quod rapidam trahit AEtatem pecus est Melib[oe]i,

The cattle _wot_ drags the _Age_, fast coach, is Melib[oe]us's.

Alas! that such an Age should be banished by the Age of rail-roads!--
let us hear the

COACHMAN'S LAMENT.

_Air._-- "Oh give me but my Arab steed."

Farewell my ribbons, and, alack!
Farewell my tidy drag;
Mail-coach-men now have got the _sack_,
And engineers the _bag_.

My heart and whip alike are broke--
I've lost my varmint team
That used to cut away like _smoke_,
But could n't go like _steam_.

It is, indeed, a bitter _cup_,
Thus to be sent to _pot_;
My bosom boils at boiling up
A gallop or a trot.

My very brain with _fury_ 's rack'd,
That railways are the _rage_;
I'm sure you'll never find them _act_,
Like our old English _stage_.

A man whose _passion_ 's crost, is sore,
Then pray excuse my _pet_;
I ne'er was _overturn'd_ before,
But now am quite _upset_.

[Illustration]

These nominative cases are excepted from the above rule, meum, mine,
tuum,