20 For humour, farcefor love they rhyme dispense, That tolls the knell for their departed sense.

I ask dispense with assembly of the Junta.

Sakuntala tries to rise, but is too weak, and the king bids her dispense with ceremony.

29 "In Britain ... blest with peace and competence, Rich Fortune's favours could impart no more: ... Heaven's blessings equal happiness dispense; Believe my words, for I am old and poor.

My murder'd fellow in this cart lies dead, Vengeance and justice on the villain's head; You, magistrates, who sacred laws dispense, On you I call to punish this offence.

It certainly does not imply wealth, and, least of all, culture, for the poorest families have usually the largest display of these things, while those with enlarged means and sense dispense with them out of good judgment.

The dreaming hunter still the chace pursues, The judge abed dispenses still the laws, And sleeps again o'er the unfinish'd cause.

'Twas answer'd, that their senators were new, Foolish, and young, and such as nothing knew; Nature to youth hot rashness doth dispense, But with cold prudence age doth recompense.