_Air._-- "Oh give me but my Arab steed."
Farewell my ribbons, and, alack!
Farewell my tidy drag;
Mail-coach-men now have got the _sack_,
And engineers the _bag_.
My heart and whip alike are broke--
I've lost my varmint team
That used to cut away like _smoke_,
But could n't go like _steam_.
It is, indeed, a bitter _cup_,
Thus to be sent to _pot_;
My bosom boils at boiling up
A gallop or a trot.
My very brain with _fury_ 's rack'd,
That railways are the _rage_;
I'm sure you'll never find them _act_,
Like our old English _stage_.
A man whose _passion_ 's crost, is sore,
Then pray excuse my _pet_;
I ne'er was _overturn'd_ before,
But now am quite _upset_.
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These nominative cases are excepted from the above rule, meum, mine,
tuum, thine, suum, his, noster, our, vester, your, humanum, human,
belluinum brutal, and the like, as
Non est tuum aviam instruere:
Don't teach your grandmother-- to suck eggs.
Humanum est inebriari.
It is a human frailty-- or an amiable weakness-- to get drunk.
Lord Byron proves it to be a _human_ frailty.
"_Man_ being _reasonable_, _must_ get drunk."
[Illustration: A REASONABLE CREATURE.]
Another poet (anon.) proves it to be an _amiable_ one, by establishing
the analogy which exists between it and an intoxication of another
kind--
"Love is like a dizziness,
Never lets a poor man go about his business."
Verbs of accusing, condemning, advising, acquitting, and the like,
require a genitive case which signifies the charge; as
Qui alterum accusat probri, eum ipsum se intueri oportet.
It is fit that he who accuses another of dishonesty
should look into himself.
If this maxim were acted up to, what attorney could we ever get to frame
an indictment?
Furti damnatus, "tres menses" adeptus est: