58. GENTLEMAN.-- With a _swimmer's_ stroke To fling the billows back from your drench'd hair, And laughing from your lip the audacious brine; ----rising o'er The waves as they arise, and prouder still The loftier they uplift thee; then, exulting, With a far-dashing stroke, and drawing deep The long suspended breath, again to spurn The foam which breaks around thee, and pursue Thy track like a sea-bird. BYRON--_The Two Foscari_. 58. LADY.--A _needle_, which though it be small and tender, Yet it is both a maker and a mender, A grave reformer of old rents decay'd, Stops holes, and seams, and desperate cuts display'd; And for your country's quiet, you would like That womankind should use no other pike. It will increase their peace, enlarge their store, To use their tongues less, and their needles more. The needle's sharpness profit yields and pleasure, But sharpness of the tongue bites out of measure. JOHN TAYLOR--_Needle's Excellency_. 59. _Infant charms_, Unconscious fascination, undesign'd; The orison repeated in your arms, The book, the bosom on your knee reclined, The low sweet fairy lore to con. CAMPBELL--_Gertrude of Wyoming_. 60. With _Shakspeare's self_ to speak and smile alone, And no intruding visitation fear To shame the unconscious laugh, or stop your sweetest tear. CAMPBELL--_Gertrude of Wyoming_. FOR WHAT HAVE YOU A DISTASTE OR AVERSION? "I do not like you, Dr. Fell-- "The reason why I cannot tell; "But this I know full well, "I do not like you, Dr. Fell." FOR WHAT HAVE YOU A DISTASTE OR AVERSION? 1. GENTLEMAN.--Three loud talking women, That are discoursing of the newest fashion. JOHN TOBIN. 1. LADY.--Ye say, "There is naething I hate like the men, But the deuce gae wi'm to believe me." BURNS. 2. The banquet-hall, the play, the ball, Have lost their charms for thee. G. P. MORRIS. 3. It's hardly in a body's power To keep at times frae being sour, To see how things are shared; How best o' chiels are whiles in want, While coofs on countless thousands rant, And ken na how to wair't. BURNS. 4. Oh, it is sad to look upon The play-place of our youthful hours, And mark what _wasting change_ hath run As fire amid its bowers, And sear'd its greenwood tree, and left A trunk all blacken'd and bereft! J. W. MILLER. 5. Conversation, when reduced to say The hundredth time what you have said before. MRS. SIGOURNEY.