(_For the Mirror._)


Chaste, as the icicle,
That's curded by the frost from purer snow,
And hangs on Dian's temple; Dear--_old maid_.

SHAKSPEARE'S _Coriolanus_.

Sed mihi vel tellus optem prius ima dehiscat,
Vel Pater omnipotens adigat me fulmine ad umbras,
Pallentes umbras Erebi, noctemque profundum,
Ante, pudor, quam te violem, aut tua jure resolvam.

VIRGIL.

I have years on my back _forty-eight_,

SHAKSPEARE'S _King Lear_.

Four-and-twenty lap-dogs, all of a row,
Four-and-twenty monkeys, kits, and cats, dit-to;
Four-and-twenty colours in her tawdry dress,
(A rainbow she in all--but its loveliness!)
Four-and-twenty tempers, in the four-and-twenty hours;
Four-and-twenty dreams of _suppos'd_ vanquished pow'rs,
To wit of four-and-twenty swains--more or less;
Who have four-and-twenty times, curs'd her ugliness!
Four-and-twenty trials, ere as many hours are o'er,
Of four-and-twenty genera of rival Kalydor;