A No opportunity he e'er let pass Of writing the directions on his labels, Apothecary's verse!—and where's the treason? He had a patient lying at Death's door, Some three miles from the town, it might be four; To whom, one evening, Bolus sent an article, In pharmacy, that's called cathartical. And on the label of the stuff He wrote this verse; Which one would think was clear enough And terse, "When taken, "To be well shaken." Next morning, early, Bolus rose; And to the patient's house he goes Who a vile trick of stumbling had : For what's expected from a horse Bolus arrived, and gave a double tap, Knocks of this kind Are given by gentlemen who teach to dance; One loud, and then a little one behind, The servant let him in, with dismal face, Long as a courtier's out of place Portending some disaster; John's countenance as rueful looked, and grim, And not his master. 66 Well, how's the patient?" Bolus said. John shook his head. “ Indeed ?—hum!-ha!—that's very odd; "He took the draught?"-John gave a nod. "Well-how?-What then?-Speak out, you dunce!"Why then," says John, we shook him once.' "Shook him!-how?" Bolus stammered out: "We jolted him about." 16 "Zounds!-shake a patient, man—a shake won't do.” ""Twould make the patient worse.' "It did so, sir-and so a third we tried." "Well, and what then?"-"Then, sir, my master-died.” 7.-JUSTICE AND TIE OYSTER. ONCE (says an author, where I need not say), COLMAN. POPE. 1.-CHEERFULNESS. TRANQUILLITY appears by the composure of the countenance and general repose of the whole body, without the exertion of any one muscle. The countenance open, the forehead smooth, the eyebrows arched, the mouth just not shut, and the eyes passing with an easy motion from object to object, but not dwelling long upon any one. Cheerfulness adds a smile to tranquillity, and opens the mouth a little more. EXAMPLE. BUT, O, how altered was its sprightlier tone! Her buskins gemmed with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call, to Fawn and Dryad known; The oak-crowned Sisters, and their chaste-eyed Queen, Satyrs and sylvan boys, were seen Peeping from forth their alleys green: Brown Exercise rejoiced to hear, And Sport leapt up, and seized his beechen spear. THE wealth of nature in my hand, One flail of virgin gold,— My love above me like a sun,— My own bright thoughts my wings,— 2.-MIRTH. COLLINS. R. M. MILNES. MIRTH, or laughter, opens the mouth horizontally, raises the cheeks high, lessens the aperture of the eyes, and, when violent, shakes and convulses the whole frame, fills the eyes with tears, and occasions holding the sides from the pain the convulsive laughter gives them. EXAMPLE. A FOOL, a fool! I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool;-a miserable world!— As I do live by food, I met a fool; Who laid him down, and basked him in the sun, In good set terms, and yet a motley fool. "Good-morrow, fool," quoth I: "No, sir," quoth he, And, then he drew a dial from his poke; Thus may we see," quoth he, "how the world wags: And after one hour more 't will be eleven; When I did hear The motley fool thus moral on the time, SHAKSPEARE's As You Like it. 3.-RAILLERY. RAILLERY, without animosity, puts on the aspect of cheerfulness; the countenance smiling, and the tone of voice sprightly. EXAMPLE. LET me play the fool With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come; And let my liver rather heat with wine, Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Sleep when he wakes? and creep into the jaundice SHAKSPEARE'S Merchant of Venice. 4.-JOY. Joy, when moderate, opens the countenance with smiles, and throws, as it were, a sunshine of delectation over the whole frame; when it is sudden and violent, it expresses itself by clapping the hands, raising the eyes towards heaven, and giving such a spring to the body as to make it attempt to mount up as if it could fly: when joy is extreme, and goes into transport, rapture, and ecstasy, it has a wildness of look and gesture that borders on folly, madness, and sorrow. EXAMPLE. IMOINDA, Oh! this separation Has made you dearer, if it can be so, SOUTHERN'S Oroonoko. OH Joy! thou welcome stranger, twice three years And I could mount. YOUNG. 5.-LOVE. LOVE gives a soft serenity to the countenance, a languishing to the eyes, a sweetness to the voice, and a tenderness to the whole frame; when entreating, it clasps the hands, with intermingled fingers, to the breast; when declaring, the right hand, open, is pressed with force upon the breast exactly over the heart; it makes its approaches with the utmost delicacy, and is attended with trembling, hesitation, and confusion. EXAMPLE. 'Twas pretty, though a plague, To see him every hour; to sit and draw His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls, In our heart's table; heart too capable SHAKSPEARE's All's Well. ALL the stars of heaven, The deep blue noon of night, lit by an orb Which looks a spirit, or a spirit's world The hues of twilight-the sun's gorgeous coming |