without
the right to the grave; some have cost L1,400. Those erected to women
are fewer by half than those for men.
_Travellers_.--The average since the peace of 1814, is 17,676 English
residents or travellers in Paris.
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MOTTO AND TRANSLATION.
_Presto et Presto_.
Double quick time.
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DIALOGUE BETWEEN GLUTTON AND ECHO.
The following lines, written in the year 1609, are said to have induced
Butler to pursue the same idea in his _Hudibras_;
_Dialogue_.
_Glutton_.--My belly I do deify.
_Echo_.--Fie.
_Glutton_.--Who curbs his appetite's a fool.
_Echo_.--Ah! fool!
_Glutton_.--I do not like this abstinence.
_Echo_.--Hence!
_Glutton_.--My joy's a feast, my wish is wine.
_Echo_.--Swine.
_Glutton_.--We epicures are happy truly.
_Echo_.--You lie.
_Glutton_.--May I not, Echo, eat my fill.
_Echo_.--Ill.
_Glutton_.
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