th the payment of fair promises.

_Album_.--A ledger kept by ladies for the entry of compliments, in rhyme,
paid _on demand_ to their beautiful hair, complexions fair, the dimpled
chin, the smiles that win, the ruby lips, where the bee sips, &c. &c.;
the whole amount being transferred to their private account from the
public stock.

_Resignation_.--Giving up a place.

_A Heathen_.--An infidel to the tenets of ton, a Goth; a monster; a
vulgar wretch. One who eats twice of soup, swills beer, _takes_ wine,
knows nothing about ennui, dyspepsia, or peristaltic persuaders, and does
not play ecarte; a creature--nobody.

_Vice_.--An instrument made use of by ladies in _netting_ for the purpose
of securing their work.

_A Martyr_.--A gentleman subject to the gout.

_Temperate_.----Quiet, an epithet applied only to horses.

_Bore_.--A country acquaintance, or relation, a leg of mutton, a
hackney-coach, &c., children, or a family party.

_Love_.--Admiration of a large fortune.

_Courage_.--Shooting a fellow creature, perhaps a friend, from the fear
of being thought a coward.

_Christmas_.--That time of year when tradesmen, and boys from school,
become troublesome.

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OLD POETS.

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A KISS.

Best charge and bravest retreat in Cupid's fight,
A double key which opens to the heart,
Most rich, when most his riches it impart,
Nest of young joys, schoolmaster of delight,
Teaching the mean at once to take and give,
The friendly stay, where blows both wound and heal,
The petty death where each in other live,
Poor hope's first wealth, hostage of promise weak,
Breakfast of love.
SIR P. SYDNEY.

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SIGHT.

-----Nine things to sight required are
The power to see, the light, the visible thing:
Being not too small, too thin, too nigh, too far,
Clear space, and time the form distinct to bring.
J. DAVIES.

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MERCY AND JUSTICE.

Oh who shall show the countenance and gestures
Of Mercy and Justice; which fair sacred sisters,
With equal poise doth ever balance even,
The unchanging projects of the King of heaven.
The one stern of look, the other mild aspecting,
The one pleas'd with tears, the other blood affecting;
The one bears the sword o