An Undress.—­A thick covering of garments.

A Treasure.—­A lady’s maid, skilful in the mysteries of building up heads, and pulling down characters; ingenious in the construction of caps, capes, and scandal, and judicious in the application of paint and flattery; also, a footman, who knows, at a single glance, what visiters to admit to the presence of his mistress, and whom to refuse.

Immortality.—­An imaginary privilege of living for ever, conferred upon heroes, poets, and patriots.

Taste.—­The art of discerning the precise shades of difference constituting a bad or well dressed man, woman, or dinner.

Tact.—­The art of wheedling a rich old relation, winning an heiress, or dismissing duns with the payment of fair promises.

Album.—­A ledger kept by ladies for the entry of compliments, in rhyme, paid on demand to their beautiful hair, complexions fair, the dimpled chin, the smiles that win, the ruby lips, where the bee sips, &c. &c.; the whole amount being transferred to their private account from the public stock.

Resignation.—­Giving up a place.

A Heathen.—­An infidel to the tenets of ton, a Goth; a monster; a vulgar wretch.  One who eats twice of soup, swills beer, takes wine, knows nothing about ennui, dyspepsia, or peristaltic persuaders, and does not play ecarte; a creature—­nobody.

Vice.—­An instrument made use of by ladies in netting for the purpose of securing their work.

A Martyr.—­A gentleman subject to the gout.

Temperate.——­Quiet, an epithet applied only to horses.

Bore.—­A country acquaintance, or relation, a leg of mutton, a hackney-coach, &c., children, or a family party.

Love.—­Admiration of a large fortune.

Courage.—­Shooting a fellow creature, perhaps a friend, from the fear of being thought a coward.

Christmas.—­That time of year when tradesmen, and boys from school, become troublesome.

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OLD POETS.

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A KISS.

Best charge and bravest retreat in Cupid’s fight,
A double key which opens to the heart,
Most rich, when most his riches it impart,
Nest of young joys, schoolmaster of delight,
Teaching the mean at once to take and give,
The friendly stay, where blows both wound and heal,
The petty death where each in other live,
Poor hope’s first wealth, hostage of promise weak,
Breakfast of love. 

                                                    SIR P. SYDNEY.

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SIGHT.

-----Nine things to sight required are
The power to see, the light, the visible thing: 
Being not too small, too thin, too nigh, too far,
Clear space, and time the form distinct to bring. 
J. DAVIES.

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