was at first a mighty stickler for the thirty tyrants' authority: but
when they began to abuse it by defending such outrageous practices, no
man more violently opposed it than he; and this (says Potter) got him
the nick-name of "_Jack of both sides_," from _Cothurnus_, which was a
kind of shoe that fitted both feet. P.T.W.

* * * * *

PLAY OF "CAESAR IN EGYPT."

When the pack'd audience from their posts retir'd,
And Julius in a general hiss expir'd,
Sage Booth to Cibber cried, "Compute your gains;
These Egypt dogs, and their old dowdy queens,
But ill requite these habits and these scenes!
To rob Corneille for such a motley piece--
His geese were swans, but, zounds, thy swans are geese."
Rubbing his firm, invulnerable brow,
The bard replied, "The critics must allow,
'Twas ne'er in Caesar's destiny to run."
Wils bow'd, and bless'd the gay, pacific pun.
_Mist's Journal_, 1724.

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FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE.

Friendship is like the cobbler's tye,
That binds two soles in unity;
But love is like the cobbler's awl,
That pierces through the _soul_ and _all_.
W.J.

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Why is St. Giles's clock like a pelisse, and unlike a cloak?--Because it
shows the figure without confining the hands.

"STRICTOR."

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CORPORATION LEARNING.

The mayor of a country town, conceiving that the word _clause_ was in
the plural number, would often talk of a _claw_ in an act of parliament.

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A HUNDRED POUND NOTE.

The following pathetic soliloquy was found written on the back of a
hundred pound note of the National Bank, which passed through our hands
lately, and we are sorry we can now add our sympathies to those of our
poet on the transitory nature of those sublunary enjoyments:--

"A little while ye hae been mine;
Nae langer can I keep ye;
I fear ye'll ne'er be mine again,
Nor any ither like ye."

_Edinburgh Paper._

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FRENCH.--- ENGLISH.

_At Boulogne._

"NOTICE to Informe the gentries: Find Dogs and some to be sold."

_At Paris._

"M. Boursier, mershant, has the honour to give account at the English
and strangers, gentlemen and livings from East Indies, that he take