A country gentleman, much averse to city revelry, made the following couplet: 

  Music hath charms to sooth the savage beast,
  And therefore proper at a city feast.

A city gentleman, who had laid up a store of wealth, replied:—­

  The chink of gold with gold, transporting sound! 
    Exceeds the Timbrel, or the Syren’s voice
  Harmonious, when collective plates go round,
    And Hock and Turtle make the heart rejoice.

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An inveterate sportsman, hearing early his favourite cry of beagles from the wood, exclaimed:—­

  Hark, friend, what heavenly music meets the ear;
  Haste, farmer, we shall lose it all, I fear.

The rustic, who dreads hounds over his new-sown wheat, replies:—­

  Music!  I cannot hear it for the noise
  Of those curs’d dogs, loud shouts, and bellowing boys.

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Antigonus, being in his tent, heard two soldiers, who were standing outside, speak very disrespectfully of him.  After he had listened some time, he opened the tent and said to them, “If you wish to speak thus of me, you might at least go a little aside.”—­Sulzer.

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