...At selling of a horse, and that 's the most. Methinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw you ; for wit is like a rest Held up at tennis, which men...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life : then when there had been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past ; wit that...

...opportunity of looking into minds as various as they were original. Beaumont has described the surface : — "What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! —...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone ' Was able to make the two next companies...

...within a range of twenty miles round his lodge. CHAPTER II. " Ridendum dicere verum quis vetat." " So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if that...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." Mermaid Club, from Blackwood. THE evening on which the neAV debating society, established on the temporary...

...things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if that every one from whence they came...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then, when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past ; wit that...

...! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life; then when there hath been known Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past ; wit that...

...a poetical epistle to Ben Jonson, Beaumont writes, " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid 1 heard words that have been So nimble, and so full...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." He died on the 15th of March, 1615, in the 30th year of his age, leaving behind him one daughter, who,...

...so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole soul in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." Then there is the " Literary Club," with Johnson, and Garrick, and Burke, and Reynolds, and Goldsmith...

...at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that ev'ry one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life; then, when there hath heen thrown Wit ahle enough to justify the town For three days past—wit that...

...So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to pnt his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." We are left to imagine the contests of wit and argument between Jonson and Shakespeare, with the tantalizing...

..."What things hare we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of flame, As if that every one from whence they came...wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the reel Of his dull life." This club, established by the efforts of Sir Walter Raleigh, near the close...