I have used it for assisting the deserving; but now I am old and infirm, and am not long for this world.

For if he be consul, then the legions which have deserted the consul deserve beating to death.

The Rose-alley ambuscade became almost proverbial; and even Mulgrave, the real author of the satire, and upon whose shoulders the blows ought in justice to have descended, mentions the circumstance in his "Art of Poetry;" with a cold and self-sufficient complacent sneer: "Though praised and punished for another's rhymes, His own deserve as great applause sometimes.

The proof that they do not cherish hatred is that on the very slightest occasion they speak well of one, and even praise one much more than one deserves.

In my opinion the issue is: 'Have the Red Indian, the Tatar, the Highland seer, and the Boston medium (the least reputable of the menagerie) observed, and reasoned wildly from, and counterfeited, and darkened with imposture, certain genuine by-products of human faculty, which do not prima facie deserve to be thrown aside?' That, I venture to think, is the real issue.

I wilbe vext, And such an anger I will fling amongst 'em Shall shake the servile soules of these poore wretches That stick his slight deservings above mine.

After Uncle Billy had won the only jack-pot deserving of the name, he was allowed to go blissfully to sleep with his hand on the handle of the big jug.