uished general was so convinced of this principle, that
he said he always employed his troops _before their dinner had
digested_.

MXXXVI.--CAUSE AND EFFECT.

SIR WILLIAM DAWES, Archbishop of York, was very fond of a pun. His
clergy dining with him, for the first time, after he had lost his lady,
he told them he feared they did not find things in so good order as they
used to be in the time of poor Mary; and, looking extremely sorrowful,
added, with a deep sigh, "She was, indeed, _Mare Pacificum_." A curate,
who pretty well knew what she had been, said, "Ay, my lord, but she was
_Mare Mortuum_ first."

MXXXVII.--A BAD PREACHER.

A CLERGYMAN, meeting a particular friend, asked him why he never came to
_hear him preach_. He answered, "I am afraid of _disturbing your
solitude_."

MXXXVIII.--ON ROGERS THE POET, WHO WAS EGOTISTICAL.

SO well deserved is Rogers' fame,
That friends, who hear him most, advise
The egotist to change his name
To "Argus," with his hundred I's!

MXXXIX.--A POSER.

IN a Chancery suit one of the counsel, describing the boundaries of his
client's land, said, in showing the plan of it, "We lie on this side, my
lord." The opposite counsel then said, "And we lie on that side." The
Chancellor, with a good-humored grin, observed, "If you _lie_ on both
sides, whom will you have me believe?"

MXL.--A QUIET DOSE.

A MEAN fellow, thinking to get an opinion of his health _gratis_, asked
a medical acquaintance what he should take for such a complaint? "I'll
tell you," said the doctor, sarcastically; "You should take _advice_."

MXLI.--THE DANCING PRELATES.

SCALIGER doth the curious fact advance,
The early bishops used to join the dance,
And winding, turning ----s shows us yet,
That Bishops still know how to pirouette.

MXLII.--AURICULAR CONFESSION.

A CUNNING juryman addressed the clerk of the court when administering
the oath, saying, "Speak up; I cannot hear what you say."--"Stop; are
you deaf?" asked Baron Alderson.--"Yes, of one ear."--"Then you may
leave the box, for it is necessary that jurymen should hear _both
sides_."

MXLIII.--A DRY FELLOW.

"WELL, Will," said an Earl one day to Will Speir, seeing the latter
finishing his dinner, "have you had a good dinner to-day?" (Will had
been grumbling some time before.) "Ou, vera gude," answered Will; "but
gin anybody asks if I g