Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.

Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!

Hope, like the gleaming taper

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.

Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.