First. Tight boots, in which it is often necessary to do penance before
_our Lady's_ window. This is at all events very _galling_.
[Illustration: A TIGHT BOOT.]
Secondly. In lover's sighs, to which it communicates their peculiar
_bitterness_.
Thirdly. Another very _galling_ thing in love is being cut out.
Fourthly. Love is one of the passions treated of by _Gall_ and
Spurzheim.
Adjectives and substantives govern an ablative case, signifying the
cause and the form, or the manner of a thing, as
Demosthenes vociferatione raucus erat:
Demosthenes was hoarse with bawling.
Nomine grammaticus, re barbarus:
A grammarian in name; in reality a barbarian.
Like many of the old masters-- we do not mean painters-- though we
certainly allude to _brothers of the brush_-- perhaps it would be better
to call them _brothers of the angle_, on account of their partiality to
the _rod_. Does the reader _twig_? If so, it is unnecessary to _branch_
out into a discussion with regard to the nature of the barbarity hinted
at-- a kind of barbarity which, though it may proclaim its perpetrators
to be by no means allied to the _feline_ race, connects them most
decidedly with the _canine_ species.
Dignus, worthy; indignus, unworthy; præditus, endued; captus, disabled;
contentus, content; extorris, banished; fretus, relying upon; liber,
free; with adjectives signifying price, require an ablative case, as
Leander dignus erat meliore fato:
Leander was worthy of a better fate.
Poor fellow! first to be head over ears in love, and then over head and
ears in the sea! Shocking! What an _hero_ic young man he must have
been.-- What _a duck_, too, the fair Hero must have thought him as she
watched him from her lonely tower, nearing her every moment, as he cleft
with lusty arm the foaming herring-pond. We mean the Hellespont-- but no
matter. What a _goose_ he must have been considered by any one else who
happened to know of his nightly exploits! How miserably he was _gulled_
at last! Never mind. If Leander went to the _fishes_ for love, many a
better man than he, has, before and since, gone, from the same cause, to
the _dogs_.
Conscientia procuratoris solidis sex, denariis octo, venale est;
A lawyer's conscience is to be sold for six and eightpence.