met a
troop of chimney-sweepers, dressed out in all their gaudy trappings; and
observed to Mr. Fox, who was walking with him, "I say, Charles, I have
often heard you and others talk of the _majesty_ of the people; but I
never saw any of the young _princes and princesses_ till now."

CCLXXX.--A PROVIDENT BOY.

AN avaricious fenman, who kept a very scanty table, dining one Saturday
with his son at an ordinary in Cambridge, whispered in his ear, "Tom,
you must eat for to-day and to-morrow."--"O yes," retorted the
half-starved lad, "but I han't eaten for _yesterday_ and _to-day_ yet,
father."

CCLXXXI.--A QUERY ANSWERED.

"WHY, pray, of late do Europe's kings
No jester to their courts admit?"
"They're grown such stately solemn things,
To bear a joke they think not fit.
But though each court a jester lacks,
To laugh at monarchs to their faces,
Yet all mankind, behind their backs,
Supply the honest jesters' places."

CCLXXXII.--A WOMAN'S PROMISES.

ANGER may sometimes make dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. Queen
Elizabeth seeing a disappointed courtier walking with a melancholy face
in one of her gardens, asked him, "What does a man think of when he
thinks of nothing?"--"Of a woman's promises!" was the reply; to which
the Queen returned, "I must not _confute_ you, Sir Edward," and she left
him.

CCLXXXIII.--THE MEDICINE MUST BE OF USE.

SARAH, Duchess of Marlborough, once pressing the duke to take a
medicine, with her usual warmth said, "I'll be hanged if it do not prove
serviceable." Dr. Garth, who was present, exclaimed, "Do take it, then,
my lord duke, for it must be of _service_ one way or the other."

CCLXXXIV.--ROYAL FAVOR.

A LOW fellow boasted in very hyperbolical terms that the king had spoken
to him; and being asked what his Majesty had said, replied, "He bade me
_stand out of the way_."

CCLXXXV.--BLACK AND WHITE.

THE Tories vow the Whigs are black as night,
And boast that they are only blessed with light.
Peel's politics to both sides so incline,
He may be called the _equinoctial line_.

CCLXXXVI.--THE WORST OF ALL CRIMES.

AN old offender being asked whether he had committed all the crimes laid
to his charge, answered, "I have done still worse! I suffered myself to
be apprehended."

CCLXXXVII.--A PHENOMENON ACCOUNTED FOR.

DR. BYRON, of Manchester,