"Liar!" said he, "thou art methinks one of her many wooers, so art thou greater fool.

"Well! sweet wooers of the bread and butter brigade," said I, "speakin after the manner of men, you've got ontop the rong hencoop this time.

A lass that has many wooers oft fares the worst.

Come, Lady Fauconbridge; it's time to come; Robin can hold out no longer, I see: Hot wooers will be tempters presently.

See, what a pleasing humour wooers bring.

O'Calligan's Wooers LXII.Verty Muses LXIII.How

MISTRESS O'CALLIGAN'S WOOERS.

Penelope, for her Ulisses sake, Deviz'd a web her wooers to deceave; In which the worke that she all day did make, The same at night she did againe unreave.

Who, though her lord had been ten years absent from her, and various accounts had been given of his death, yet, notwithstanding this, and the addresses of many royal suitors, she preserved her heart for her Ulysses, who at last triumphed over his enemies, and rescued his faithful queen from the persecution of her wooers.

Now my brave wooers, how they strive for a Jewes Trump. Doct.

Where are these wooers heere?

What would he be like, that worthiest among the wooers, that King Arthur among her knights? First and foremost, he would be of rank higher than her owna duke, a marquis, or one of the first and oldest among earls.

Virtue seems to the wise man beautiful and valuable enough even without this, and yet the commendations of philosophers gain for her but few wooers.

BOLDWOOD (Farmer), one of the wooers of Bathsheba Everdene.

In the gay, glad light grow wooers bold, For there's brightness e'en in the dark morass, When the forest flames in crimson and gold.

The second Benjamin Harrison of Brandon was among her wooers; and it is to his courtship that Thomas Jefferson refers when expressing, in one of his letters, the hope that his old college roommate may have luck at Wilton.

Oh, ye are precious wooers, all of ye. I marvel how ye ever ope your lips Unto, or look upon that fearful thing, A lovely woman.

In later chapters instances will be given of such wooers killing coveted girls with their own spears as soon as they find that the rival is the winner.

What to us is this lachrymose, fantastic female Germania, which has been betrothed to so many lords and wooers, that she can remain faithful and true to none?

In consequence of a poetical genius, and an engaging sprightliness peculiar to her, she had many wooers, some of whom seriously addressed her, while others meant no more than the common gallantries of young people.

[Footnote 123: It will be recalled that when Odysseus, disguised as a beggar, was making his way to his house in company with the faithful swineherd Eumaeus, they met the goatherd Melanthius "leading his goats to feast the wooers, the best goats that were in all the herds.

Travel with the multitude: Never heed them; I aver 35 That they all are wanton wooers; But the thrifty cottager, Who stirs little out of doors, Joys to spy thee near her home; Spring is coming, Thou art come!

The same great Law of Sympathy is given To Evil as to Good, and if we swell The dark account that life incurs with Heaven, 'Tis that our Vices are thy Wooers, Hell!

" That she had wooers in plenty, even before she was so far advanced in the teens, was inevitable; but her personal preferences counted for little in face of the Cardinal's determination to find for her, as for all his nieces, a splendid alliance which should shed lustre on himself.

This is the time of year when the birds set up housekeeping; and such debonair wooers the male birds are!