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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 12, No. 324, July 26, 1828 by Various
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church; but _port_ wine, made _copiously potable_ by being mulled and
burnt, with the _addenda_ of roasted lemons all bristling like angry
hedge-hogs (studded with cloves,) is dignified with the appellation of
_Bishop_:

Beneath some old oak, come and rest thee, my hearty;
Our foreheads with roses, oh! let us entwine!
And, inviting young Bacchus to be of the party,
We'll drown all our troubles in oceans of wine!

And perfumed with _Macassar_ or _Otto_ of roses,
We'll pass round the BISHOP, the spice-breathing cup,
And take of that medicine such wit-breeding doses,
We'll knock _down_ the god, or he shall knock us _up_.

* * * * *

GAZETTED AND IN THE GAZETTE.

These terms imply very different things. The son of a nobleman is
_gazetted_, as a cornet in a regiment, and all his friends rejoice. John
Thomson is _in the Gazette_, and all his friends lament.

* * * * *

UNFORTUNATE CASE.

A zealous priest in the north of Ireland missed a constant auditor from
his congregation, in which schism had already made depredations. "What
keeps our friend Farmer B----away from us?" was the anxious question
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