The silly countryman who, seeing an ape in a scarlet coat, blessed his young worship, and gave his landlord joy of the hopes of his house, did not slander his complement with worse application than he that names this shred an historian.

"I had not finished my studies under Galen when that great master one day informed me that a trader had brought him an ape, which had been confined in a small building near his house.

"Well, Masoy," cried the ape, "you have entirely exhausted my patience!

Tarzan tells the apes.

This is the cause there is so many scapes, For women that are wise will not lead apes In hell: I tell ye, mother, I say true; Therefore come husband: maidenhead adieu!

Why, friend, they either are mens soules themselves Or the most witty imitatrixes of them, Or prettiest sweet apes of humane soules.

A fantastic humour possesseth him of spurning at piety and soberness; he inconsiderately followeth a herd of wild fops, he affecteth to play the ape.

They had scarcely finished this edifying conversation when they came across Martin the ape, on his way to Rome; and Reynard hastened to implore him to secure his release from the Pope's ban, through the intercession of the ape's uncle, the cardinal, whose interest it was to serve him.

Assumption of this kind never convinced WILLIAM APES of its own justice.

"You Irish would crown apes!"

"Dare ye name Ulf the Strong ape, forsooth?

This in love-vanity transcends; 30 That smitten with his face and shape, By dress distinguishes the ape; T'other with learning crams his shelf, Knows books, and all things but himself.

"Suppose we should encounter another ape?"

" "Miss Fairfax tells me that was a storeroom in which I fought the ape last night.

When the Boy heard it, he said, "You abandoned creatures, how can you find heart to whistle when your houses are burning?" THE APES AND THE TWO TRAVELLERS Two men were travelling together, one of whom never spoke the truth, whereas the other never told a lie: and they came in the course of their travels to the land of Apes.

[Footnote 95: 'Ape:' latitudinarians in general.]

As Abano, following the youth's eye, caught sight of the portent, his visage assumed an expression of frantic horror, his spells died upon his lips, and the gorgeous figures became grinning apes or blotchy toads: madly he seized the young man's hand, and strove to force him to complete his signature.

I often feel: 'How these young men must be hating this gibbering and giggling ape, which after all is not really me!'"

That night the wedding took place, and Masoy lived many years in the palace with his wife, having the ape and a great number of slaves to serve him.

I hear some one say "Murrain take him, the ape!"

In his laboratory at Montecito, California, Hamilton has from time to time kept anthropoid apes, but without special effort to investigate their ideational behavior.

When I saw him, he look lak a hairy ape, 'thout no clothes on an' hair growin' all over his body.

That's a tricke by Jesu to mocke an Ape: wee'le none of that.

How these young pea-chicks must needs ape the grown peacock's frippery!

3 As a vulture rapacious, in falsehood a fox, Inconstant as waves, and unfeeling as rocks; As a tiger ferocious, perverse as a hog, In mischief an ape, and in fawning a dog.