Life — April 26, 1883 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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204 A TRAGEDY IN TRIOLETS. WHAT HE SAID, M ILDRED gave me a rose— She'll forget it by morning. May I hope that she knows? Mildred gave me a rose. Bah! Her big jacqueminots Forty coats are adorning. Mildred gave me a rose— She'll forget it by morning. WHAT SHE SAID, Harry begged for a rose ; Was he flirting, I wonder? Though he might—if—he—chose— Harry begged for a rose Just to show, I suppose, And to tear it asunder. Harry begged for a rose ; Was he flirting, I wonder? WHAT ‘THE WORLD" SAID. ** Married—Mildred Van John To the Duc de Bellago.” And ten lines further on; “ Married, Mildred Van John" Is ‘* To Henry Hautton, Miss Merluche, of Chicago.” ** Married—Mildred Van John To the Duc de Bellago.” Curtis GuILp, Jr. PUMER COX THE FIRST OF MAY IN THE WOODS. THE DUDE. And what the Professional Poets have Prophesied About Him. 6 LJ OW far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good Dude Hin a naughty world." —Shakspeare? Merchant of Denice, act Bay te Be —" Words are women, Dudes are men.”—George Herbert : dentum. Jacula Prun ‘Tis better to have loved a Dude, than never to have loved at all !"" —Tennyson: /n Memoriam, xxxii. yle in clothes 9s = Excellent Dude! Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when 1 love thee not, chaos is come again.”"—Shakspeare: Othello, act fli, 8. 3. —"* Lo, the poor Dudeling! whose untutored mind, sees and wears it short bebind.""—Pope: Essay on Man, — A Dude without an aim,""—Shakspeare: Macbeth, act fv., s¢. #. "The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, unless the Dude go with it!" —Shakspeare: Macbeth, act iv., 4. f, ‘The sheeted Dude did squeak and gibberin the streets.""—Shakspeare : Hamlet, i.,3¢. 4. : + But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for Dudes to peck at."” Shak= speare: Othello, act f., s¢. 6. ~ The wealthy, curled Dudelings of our nation."—Shakspeare: Othello, act ., 40.4. bewith the Dude whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to Shakspeare : Macbeth, act tii., s¢. 2. ** Bette peace. —"* Dudes, not words." —Beaumont and Fletcher: The Lover's Progress, act fii. sc. 2, —* And with necessity, the tyrant’s plea, excused these devilish Dudes.”* —Milton: Paradise Lost, iv.. 393. —"' The slender Dude to nature's quickly paid, Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.” —Francis Quarles: Emb~ems, fi.y 13. —** The bane of all that dread the Dude."” Wordsworth: The Idiot Boy. —""'Tis expectation makes a Dudeling dear ; Heaven were not heaven, if we knew what it were.’* —Sir John Suckling : Against Function. —" The cold—the changed—perchance the Dude—anew, The mourned, the loved. the lost—too many !— Yet how few!” —Byron: Childe Harold, iv., 24. —" Hail Columbia! happy land ! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band ! Who’ come as Dudes in Freedom's cause.”* Joseph Hopkinson: Mail Columbia, —"* My days among the Dudes are passed ; Around me I behold, pes Where'er these casual tyes are cast, ‘The mighty minds of old My never failing friends are they With whom I converse day by day.”” —Southe; —" Each matin bell, the Baron concludes, Knells us back to a world of Dudes. — Coleridge : Occasional Pieces, xviit, Christabel, Not a word 2" : jot one to throw at a Dude!" —Shakspeare: As you Like It, act é.,s¢. 3. comicbooks.com