Rather an ass ... rather ridiculous; apparently in every way but one.

When for a drunken Sot, that had kind hours, And taking their own freedoms, left you yours; 'Twas your delib'rate choice your days to pass With a damn'd, sober, self-admiring Ass, Who thinks good usage for the Sex unfit, And slights ye out of Sparkishness and Wit.

The ringing of Bells is an Ass to't.

thou'rt an Ass, we are but even with the brisk Rogues, for they take away our Fame, cuckold us, and take away our Wives:

thou'rt an Ass, Francisbut no morecome, come, let's to bed Let.

I'll not be fob'd offwhat, do they take me for a Foolan Ass? Bred.

She would look pensive just to make an ass of you!

That exquisite writer, Horae Subsecivae Brown, quotes, (without comment,) as a motto to one of his volumes, an anecdote from Pierce Egan, which I reproduce here: "A lady, resident in Devonshire, going into one of her parlors, discovered a young ass, who had found its way into the room, and carefully closed the door upon himself.

wy did yu sai al ass yu sad iff yu cud unt mary nor none of the scolards at hocksfoot Kolidge.

thinc i shal take im ass father sais there is sum mistake, mi deerest deere mi art is brock butt

He'd pinch BALAAM'S ass.

"'You hairy old ass!

The man is a complete ass.

But the ass couldn't see it.

I couldn't help saying to him, at the end of the evening, in a tone of such evident satire that anyone but an ass would have recognised it, that I had seldom had as keen an evening at cards.

I had hardly started to talk about the rate of exchange on the German mark in relation to the fall of sterling billsa thing that you would think a whole table full of people would be glad to listen towhen first thing I knew the whole lot of them had ceased paying any attention and were listening to an insufferable ass of an EnglishmanI forget his name.

All through dinner that ass talked he and that silly young actor they're always asking there that is perpetually doing imitations of the vaudeville people.

"The fellow's an ass," I decided.

"I suppose that ass, Lagune ...

How much better it would have been if you were a dunce like me or your fatherbut a dunce at least who knows how to get a woman if he has to, without making a public ass of himself!"

At times I feel inclined to think that I was not worthy of her; at others, that I made an ass of myself over a girl like dozens of others.

I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me: the ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

Among the rest of these stood Balaam's ass A speaking likeness (if you will, a braying) And Abraham's sacrifice, and there, alas! Lot's daughters, too, their drunken sire betraying.

Both parties thus reviled and cursed away, And none who heard could tell the why or whether, Till Balaam's ass at last began to bray And soon outbawled both gods and saints together.

Still, it is by no means certain that this fortress would have resisted an ass laden with gold, any more than did that of which Philip of Macedon spoke.