Lady Fidget dit

Our virtue is like tbe statesman's religion, tbe Quaker's word, tbe gamester's oatb, and tbe great man's bonour, but to cbeat those that trust us. (Wycberlëy, Love in a Wood.)

If you consult tbe widows of tbe town, theylltell you, you sbould never take a lease of a bouse you can bire for a guarter's warning. (Vanbrugb, Relapse^ acte II, fin.)

My beart eut a caper up to my moutb wben I heard my fatber was sbot tbrougb tbe bead. (Ihid.)