Jes don' feel extry pert, that's all.

It had got silly, indecorous, pert, and everything that is bad.

She said I grew pert and precocious and worldly-wise, and full of servants' talk and ideas.

Lo! dandies from Kamschatka flirt With beauties from the Wrekin And belles from Berne look very pert On Mandarins from Pekin; The Cardinal is here from Rome, The Commandant from Seville And Hamlet's father from the tomb, And Faustus from the Devil.

In the old ballad of "The Fray of Hautwessel," we are told that "The limmer thieves o' Liddesdale Wadna leave a kye in the haill countrie, But an we gi'e them the cauld steel, Our gear they'll reive it a' awaye, Sae pert they stealis, I you saye.

It fell out thus: He went on a visit to Leonato, governor of Messina; here he sees Beatrice, the governor's niece, as wild and witty as himself, but he dislikes her, thinks her pert and forward, and somewhat ill-mannered withal.

Now what I would beg of you, would be to know whether I may venture to use these pert Fellows with the same Freedom as I did my Country Acquaintance.