One called 'Surat Warps,' and said to be the production of a Rossendale rhymester, (T. N., of Bacup,) appeared in Notes and Queries of June 3, 1865, (third series, vol.

[G.]; improvisatore^; versifier, sonneteer; rhymer, rhymist^, rhymester; ballad monger, runer^; poetaster; genus irritabile vatum [Lat.].

It is done unconsciously by many a simple rhymester whose verses are bought by Sulphites and read with glee.

I am compelled, then, to fall back upon those same unreliable, irresponsible rhymesters, and to insist with them that a maid waiting in the springtide for the man she loves is necessarily happy and very rarely puzzles her head over the scientific reason for it.

And yet, with all this self-styled unfitness for the pursuit, I was afterwards informed, that at his subsequent examination he displayed an amount of acquirement which surprised his fellow-students, who had scarcely any other association with him than that of a cheerful, crochety rhymester.

Changed to two followers, terrible to see, Who dog his walks, and whisper "That is he!" Rhymesters attend! nor scorn & friendly hint, Restrain your cacoëths fierce to print.

The paralytic puling of Carlisle... Lord, rhymester, petit-maitre, pamphleteer.

I swear that no muse-stricken rhymester ever reads his own last poem with more delight than I do what you write to me about matters public or private, town or country.

"What one wants in a husband is not so much a rhapsodist as a rhymester, not so much a lover as a walking-gentlemanPierre is that, you know.

Here is a sample: "As there are no established authorities in this art, and, indeed, no acknowledged principlesevery rhymester being permitted to invent his own method, and write by instinct or imitationthe critic feels quite at liberty to say just what he pleases, and offer his private observations as though these were really of some moment.

"Rhymester, n. One who makes rhymes; a versifier; a mean poet."Walker, Chalmers, Maunder, Worcester.

Nor, again, does the following construction appear to be right: "Now shew me another Popish rhymester but he.

Say rather, "Now show me an other popish rhymester besides him."

Or thus: "Now show me any popish rhymester except him."

Except Campion, who is a discovery of our own day, not a single Elizabethan or Jacobean rhymester of the second or third rank escapes his notice.

I find the rhymester glorious and very vile.

The news of the defeat at Rosbach came bursting on France like a clap of thunder; the wrath, which first of all blazed out against Soubise, at whose expense all the rhymesters were busy, was reflected upon the king and Madame de Pompadour.

This consolation, to which the French nation had but lately been accustomed, failed it all at once; mental irritation, for a long time silently brooding, cantoned in the writings of philosophers and in the quatrains of rhymesters, was beginning to spread and show itself amongst the nation; it sought throughout the state an object for its wrath; the powerful society of the Jesuits was the first to bear all the brunt of it.