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Article EXCERPTA ET COLLECTANEA. ← Page 2 of 2 Article CLOWNISH SIMPLICITY. Page 1 of 1 Article BON MOT OF THE DEVIL. Page 1 of 1
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Excerpta Et Collectanea.
Lainez was once told , that an acquaintance of his had composed a volume , on the subject of two short lines , in one of his poems ; where , speaking of himself under the character of an agreeable epicurean , he says : — La Debauche le fuit , La Volupte le suit .
Debauch flies him , Voluptuousness follows him . Finding the Use this person had made of these two lines—He is a comical fellow , said he : be bus taken a drop of my essence to mix in a gallon of water . ' ¦„ When Lainez had received the sacrament in his last illness , his to be carried off
confessor ordered a box full of licentious verses , while he was asleep . This was not done without a great deal of opposition on the part of the servant , which awakened the poet ; who , finding what they were about , cried out— Thieves ! thieves ! and ordered a Commissary to be sent for , to whom he made his complaint , and the box ordered to be lacedby his bed-side . After this
was rep . he conversed some time with '' his priest with great vivacity , and desired to be carried in a chair to the parish of St . Roch , where he died . He had intended to be carried to the plain of Montmartre , to behold the rising sun once more before his death ; but in this he was prevented .
Clownish Simplicity.
CLOWNISH SIMPLICITY .
In a village in France , an old farmer was dying . The son was dispatched to the Cure to confess him . He remained three hours at the Cure ' s door , knocking veiy softly . The door was at length opened by the Cure himself , who asked him , why he had not knocked louder ? I was afraid to waken you , ' answered the peasant . ¦ What is the businesshowever come about ? ' said the priest .
, , you ¦ My father was dying , ' replied he , ' when I left him four hours ago . ' ' He is by this time then , certainly dead ; and I have no occasion to go to him , ' said the priest . ' Oh no , Sir , ' replied the fellow , ' our nei ghboar Pierrot promised to keep him alive till you should come . '
Bon Mot Of The Devil.
BON MOT OF THE DEVIL .
[ From Quevedo , a Spanish writer . ] A wretched miser in Salamanca being on his death-bed , his infernal majesty dispatched his messenger Moloch to convey his soul to the shades to meet its due reward as soon as it should leave its mortal frame . Moloch , however , returned very shortly after , and informed his majestythat he had found the bed of the miser so
en-, compassed with trustees and executors ( for the miser was willing all his wealth to charitable purposes ) that he could not get near it . That is very unfortunate , ' said the Devil ; ' the wretch has ; - it is true , been too cunning for us ; but his immense fortune , left for CHAKITIES , will insure us all the trustees and executors .
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Excerpta Et Collectanea.
Lainez was once told , that an acquaintance of his had composed a volume , on the subject of two short lines , in one of his poems ; where , speaking of himself under the character of an agreeable epicurean , he says : — La Debauche le fuit , La Volupte le suit .
Debauch flies him , Voluptuousness follows him . Finding the Use this person had made of these two lines—He is a comical fellow , said he : be bus taken a drop of my essence to mix in a gallon of water . ' ¦„ When Lainez had received the sacrament in his last illness , his to be carried off
confessor ordered a box full of licentious verses , while he was asleep . This was not done without a great deal of opposition on the part of the servant , which awakened the poet ; who , finding what they were about , cried out— Thieves ! thieves ! and ordered a Commissary to be sent for , to whom he made his complaint , and the box ordered to be lacedby his bed-side . After this
was rep . he conversed some time with '' his priest with great vivacity , and desired to be carried in a chair to the parish of St . Roch , where he died . He had intended to be carried to the plain of Montmartre , to behold the rising sun once more before his death ; but in this he was prevented .
Clownish Simplicity.
CLOWNISH SIMPLICITY .
In a village in France , an old farmer was dying . The son was dispatched to the Cure to confess him . He remained three hours at the Cure ' s door , knocking veiy softly . The door was at length opened by the Cure himself , who asked him , why he had not knocked louder ? I was afraid to waken you , ' answered the peasant . ¦ What is the businesshowever come about ? ' said the priest .
, , you ¦ My father was dying , ' replied he , ' when I left him four hours ago . ' ' He is by this time then , certainly dead ; and I have no occasion to go to him , ' said the priest . ' Oh no , Sir , ' replied the fellow , ' our nei ghboar Pierrot promised to keep him alive till you should come . '
Bon Mot Of The Devil.
BON MOT OF THE DEVIL .
[ From Quevedo , a Spanish writer . ] A wretched miser in Salamanca being on his death-bed , his infernal majesty dispatched his messenger Moloch to convey his soul to the shades to meet its due reward as soon as it should leave its mortal frame . Moloch , however , returned very shortly after , and informed his majestythat he had found the bed of the miser so
en-, compassed with trustees and executors ( for the miser was willing all his wealth to charitable purposes ) that he could not get near it . That is very unfortunate , ' said the Devil ; ' the wretch has ; - it is true , been too cunning for us ; but his immense fortune , left for CHAKITIES , will insure us all the trustees and executors .