If all these ills could not undo us quite, A brisk French troop is grown your dear delight; Who with broad bloody bills call you each day To laugh and break your buttons at their play; Or see some serious piece, which we presume Is fallen from some incomparable plume; 10 And therefore, Messieurs, if you'll do us grace, Send lackeys early to preserve your place.

"Some day when you declare yourselves independent," he said somewhat abstractedly to the native lackey who opened the carriage-door for him, "remember that there were not lacking in Spain hearts that beat for you and struggled for your rights!" "Where, sir?" asked the lackey, who had understood nothing of this and was inquiring whither they should go.

At the palace I flung myself off, rushed up the stairs, brushed aside the lackeys who would have stopped me, and pushed my way into the Emperor's own cabinet.

"As for myself," pursued Gaston, "I have too long submitted to your insolence, and you deserve that I should chastise you as I would a lackey.

The courier did not reach the inn until the party were about to set forth, on account of being turned repeatedly from his course by designing lackeys left along the way for the purpose.

Count Rechteren, deputy for Overyssel, complained that, a few days after this battle, when he was riding in his carriage by the gate of M. Ménager, the French Plenipotentiary, that gentleman's lackeys insulted his lackeys with grimaces and indecent gestures.

" Luminelli then consulted his magic globe a second time; led the lackey of M. de Créquy to the rear of his master; made a profound salutation to the latter; and addressing him in his turn, detailed, as he had previously done in the case of Bassompierre, all the leading events of his past and future life.

he exclaimed with well-acted heat; "are the Leman winds liveried lackeys, to come and go as may suit your fancies; now to blow west, and now east, as shall be most wanted, to help you on your journeys?

He excels his brother for a coward, yet his brother is reputed one of the best that is: in a retreat he outruns any lackey; marry, in coming on he has the cramp.

She listened at the door to the sounds below, and, seeing a lackey, asked what the noise meant.

Disconsolate, I was preparing for the journey, and stopped to cast one last look up to the windows behind which my beloved sits captivea lackey of the King's suite approached me.

'Tis past time for thee to clothe thyself in that in which thy noble lord hath seen fit to purchase for thee; I heard some moments since the arrival of the hunters and it's time" There was a sounding rap and 'twas his Lordship's lackey begging the admittance of his master.

Marillac himself blubbered, that it "was all about a little straw and hay, a matter for which a master would not whip a lackey.

Quietly he beckoned a lackey and whispered aside.