Ilow ofien hâve I heard trxu wit caU'd stu/f

By Men with nothing in their Drains but Snu/ff Each Shante Spark, that can the Fathion hit, Place his Hat thut, rôle full\,] fortooth\'\s a Wit; And thinka hia Cloatha allow him judge of it.

(Crown, épilogue de Sir Courtly Nice.)

9. ... He resigns himself to slccp, but rouscd suddenly by Ihe pétulant pinch of some neighbouring wench, he suddenly proclaims his pretensions to wit and crilicism, by loudly damning the play, with a most tragical face. (Proteus BedivivuSf the Art of Wheedlingy a liltlc work wiitlcn in the rcign of Charles II, cité par Malcolm, p. 167.) — Voy. p. 62, une citation de The Character of A Totvn-Gallant, conçue presque dans les mômes termes.