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Peacock horse

Omnium gatherum

“as poor as Job’s turkey”

Penny starver

Spinning house

Weaving leather aprons

Porterhouse steak

Old gooseberry

Paddy’s land

Nantee palaver

Bombay Ducks

Walking the pegs

Sous tes doigts la caresse rend mon désir si fort

Qu’il va même jusque à l’ivresse et meurt à la fin de l’accord

Mon coeur est un violon

Sur lequel ton archet joue

Et qui vibre tout du long

Appuyé contre ta joue

Tantôt l’air est vif et gai

Comme un refrain de folie

Tantôt le sont fatigué

Traîne avec mélancolie

Et vibrant à l’unisson

Mon coeur est un violon...

No man can admire thee for thy sharp acute language, such is thy natural disability that way. Be it so: yet there be many other good things, for the want of which thou canst not plead the want or natural ability. Let them be seen in thee, which depend wholly from thee; sincerity, gravity, laboriousness, contempt of pleasures; be not querulous, be Content with little, be kind, be free; avoid all superfluity, all vain prattling; be magnanimous. Doest not thou perceive, how many things there be, which notwithstanding any pretence of natural indisposition and unfitness, thou mightest have performed and exhibited, and yet still thou doest voluntarily continue drooping downwards? Or wilt thou say that it is through defect of thy natural constitution, that thou art constrained to murmur, to be base and wretched to flatter; now to accuse, and now to please, and pacify thy body: to be vainglorious, to be so giddy-headed., and unsettled in thy thoughts?

This thou must have been contented with, to have borne the blame of one that is somewhat slow and dull, wherein thou must so exercise thyself, as one who neither doth much take to heart this his natural defect, nor yet pleaseth himself in it.

Such there be, who when they have done a good turn to any, are ready to set them on the score for it, and to require retaliation. Others there be, who though they stand not upon retaliation, to require any, yet they think with themselves nevertheless, that such a one is their debtor, and they know as their word is what they have done.

And for all external things belonging either to this thy wretched body, or life, to remember that they are neither thine, nor in thy power.