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diff --git a/40266-h/40266-h.htm b/40266-h/40266-h.htm index 02f815e..812166d 100644 --- a/40266-h/40266-h.htm +++ b/40266-h/40266-h.htm @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <title> The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Punster's Pocket-Book or the Art of Punning, by Charles Molloy Westmacott. @@ -90,57 +90,7 @@ table { </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Punster's Pocket-book, by -Charles Molloy Westmacott - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: The Punster's Pocket-book - or, the Art of Punning Enlarged by Bernard Blackmantle, - illustrated with numerous original designs by Robert - Cruikshank - -Author: Charles Molloy Westmacott - -Illustrator: Robert Cruikshank - -Release Date: July 17, 2012 [EBook #40266] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PUNSTER'S POCKET-BOOK *** - - - - -Produced by Bryan Ness, Laura and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - -</pre> - - - - - - - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40266 ***</div> <div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> @@ -514,7 +464,7 @@ veste timore</i>;" the other is the well-known epigram by Martial on the emperor Nero:</p> -<div class="figcenter">"<i>Quis negat Æneæ natum de stirpe Neronem?</i><br /> +<div class="figcenter">"<i>Quis negat Æneæ natum de stirpe Neronem?</i><br /> <span class="smcap">Sustulit</span> <i>hic matrem</i>, <span class="smcap">Sustulit</span> ille patrem."</div> @@ -524,7 +474,7 @@ arising from the use of two words that agree in the sound, but differ in the sense," goes on to inform us that if translated into a different language, it will vanish in the experiment; in fact he would represent -it as <i>vox et præterea nihil</i>, a sound, and +it as <i>vox et præterea nihil</i>, a sound, and nothing but a sound. Unquestionably there are a multitude of puns that might answer this description, but it is far from being applicable to all. @@ -570,7 +520,7 @@ a Parisian wit, to a person who asked him what was the true distinction between a flea and a louse. He answered that they were only disciples of different philosophers: the lice being followers of -Epictetus (<i>des pique-têles</i>), and the fleas of Epicurus +Epictetus (<i>des pique-têles</i>), and the fleas of Epicurus (<i>des piqueurs</i>). The other is an epigram, much talked off at the time of its appearance in the French metropolis, written by some wag, under a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> @@ -587,7 +537,7 @@ to:</p> <span style="margin-left: 8em;">Le Gros l'a peint!</span><br /> <span style="margin-left: 8em;">Notre bon souverain.</span><br /> <span style="margin-left: 8em;">De la peinture admirez la magie:</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 8em;">Tout le monde à la fois s'écrie,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 8em;">Tout le monde à la fois s'écrie,</span><br /> <span style="margin-left: 8em;">Le Gros l'a peint!</span><br /> <span style="margin-left: 8em;">Le Gros l'a peint!</span><br /> </p> @@ -595,7 +545,7 @@ to:</p> <p>As I have assumed the privilege in these remarks of being as desultory and digressive as I please, I shall here notice what I term <i>macaroni -punning</i>, effected by a fictitious <i>mélange</i> of different +punning</i>, effected by a fictitious <i>mélange</i> of different languages. Sometimes this will arise from the inspection of a single word. Who, for instance, can forbear smiling at the curious orthoepical coincidence @@ -626,7 +576,7 @@ in the words of Virgil:</p> passage:</p> -<div class="figcenter">"Non, verum <span class="smcap">Ægonis</span>: nuper mihi tradidit <span class="smcap">Ægon</span>."</div> +<div class="figcenter">"Non, verum <span class="smcap">Ægonis</span>: nuper mihi tradidit <span class="smcap">Ægon</span>."</div> <p>Probably, however, Swift's impromptu quotation @@ -634,7 +584,7 @@ on seeing a Cremona violin swept off a table by a lady's mantua:</p> -<div class="figcenter">"<i>Mantua</i>, væ! miseræ nimium vicina <i>Cremonæ</i>,"</div> +<div class="figcenter">"<i>Mantua</i>, væ! miseræ nimium vicina <i>Cremonæ</i>,"</div> <p>will always stand at the head of puns of this class.</p> @@ -981,12 +931,12 @@ THE FLOWER OF LANGUAGES:<br /> <hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<blockquote><p>"Ex ambiguâ dictâ vel argutissima putantur; sed non semper in -joco, sæpe etiam in gravitate versantur. Ingeniosi enim videtur, -vim verbi in aliud atque cæteri accipiant, posse ducere."</p></blockquote> +<blockquote><p>"Ex ambiguâ dictâ vel argutissima putantur; sed non semper in +joco, sæpe etiam in gravitate versantur. Ingeniosi enim videtur, +vim verbi in aliud atque cæteri accipiant, posse ducere."</p></blockquote> <p> -<span style="margin-left: 20.5em;"><i>Cicero, de Oratore, Lib. ii. § 61, 2.</i></span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 20.5em;"><i>Cicero, de Oratore, Lib. ii. § 61, 2.</i></span><br /> </p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span></p> @@ -1069,7 +1019,7 @@ and especially of,</p> <hr style="width: 45%;" /> <p><a name="PREFACE" id="PREFACE"></a></p><div class="figcenter">PREFACE.<br /></div> -<p><span style="margin-left: 10em;"><i>Hæe nos, ab imis Pun-icorum annalibus</i></span><br /> +<p><span style="margin-left: 10em;"><i>Hæe nos, ab imis Pun-icorum annalibus</i></span><br /> <span style="margin-left: 10em;"><i>Prolata, longo tempore edidimus tibi.</i><span class="smcap">Fest.</span></span><br /></p> <p><span style="margin-left: 10em;">I've raked the ashes of the dead, to show</span><br /> <span style="margin-left: 10em;">Puns were in vogue five thousand years ago.</span><br /> @@ -1086,22 +1036,22 @@ hath not been reduced to a <i>science</i>; and indeed Cicero seemed long ago to wish for it, as we may gather from his second book de Oratore<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a>, where he has this remarkable passage: "Suavis autem -est et vehementer sæpe utilis jocus et facetiæ cum -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span>ambiguitate—in quibus tu longè aliis meâ sententiâ, -Cæsar, excellis: quo magìs mihi etiam testis esse +est et vehementer sæpe utilis jocus et facetiæ cum +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span>ambiguitate—in quibus tu longè aliis meâ sententiâ, +Cæsar, excellis: quo magìs mihi etiam testis esse potes, aut nullam esse artem salis, aut, si qua est, eam nos tu potissimum docebis." "Punning is extremely delightful, and oftentimes very profitable; -in which, as far as I can judge, Cæsar, you excel +in which, as far as I can judge, Cæsar, you excel all mankind; for which reason you may inform me, whether there be any art of Punning; or, if there be, I beseech you, above all things, to instruct me in it." So much was this great man affected with the art, and such a noble idea did he conceive of it, -that he gave Cæsar the preference to all mankind, +that he gave Cæsar the preference to all mankind, only on account of that accomplishment!</p> -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> Lib. ii. § liv.</p></div> +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> Lib. ii. § liv.</p></div> <p>Let critics say what they will, I will venture to affirm, that Punning, of all arts and sciences, is @@ -1135,12 +1085,12 @@ continued merriment among the gods.</p> <p>As to the antiquity of this art, Buxtorf proves it to be very early among the Chaldeans; which any one may see at large, who will read what he says -upon the word ציךז Pun, Vocula est Chaldæis familiarissima, +upon the word ציךז Pun, Vocula est Chaldæis familiarissima, &c. "It is a word that is most frequently in use among the Chaldeans," who were first instructed in the methods of punning by their -magi, and gained such reputation, that Ptolemæus -Philo-punnæus sent for six of those learned priests, +magi, and gained such reputation, that Ptolemæus +Philo-punnæus sent for six of those learned priests, to propagate their doctrine of puns in six of his principal cities; which they did with such success, that his majesty ordered, by public edict, to have a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> @@ -1155,13 +1105,13 @@ this following remarkable inscription over the door:</p> "The shop of the soul's physic<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a>."<br /></div> -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> Vide Joseph. Bengor. Chronic. in Edit. Georg. Homedidæ. -Scriem Godoliæ Tradit. Hebraic. Corpus Paradoseon -Titulo Megill. c. i. § 8. Chronic. Samarit. Abulphetachi. +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> Vide Joseph. Bengor. Chronic. in Edit. Georg. Homedidæ. +Scriem Godoliæ Tradit. Hebraic. Corpus Paradoseon +Titulo Megill. c. i. § 8. Chronic. Samarit. Abulphetachi. Megillat. Taanit.</p></div> <p>Some authors, but upon what ground it is uncertain, -will have Pan, who in the Æolic dialect is +will have Pan, who in the Æolic dialect is called Pun, to be the author of Puns, because, they say, Pan being the god of universal nature, and Punning free of all languages, it is highly probable @@ -1242,11 +1192,11 @@ him by Diogenes, "Take care you do not corrupt your pupil." The word κὁρα signifies both the pupil of the eye and a virgin<a name="FNanchor_4_4" id="FNanchor_4_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a>.</p> -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_4_4" id="Footnote_4_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_4"><span class="label">[4]</span></a> See Laërtius.</p></div> +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_4_4" id="Footnote_4_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_4"><span class="label">[4]</span></a> See Laërtius.</p></div> <p>It would be endless to produce all the authorities that might be gathered, from Diodorus Siculus, -Herodotus, Proconosius, Bergæus, Dionysius Halicarnassensis, +Herodotus, Proconosius, Bergæus, Dionysius Halicarnassensis, Lycophron, Pindar, Apollonius, Menander, Aristophanes, Corinthus Cous, Nonnus, Demosthenes, Euripides, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, @@ -1255,7 +1205,7 @@ produced some quotations, were it not that we are so unfortunate in this kingdom not to have Greek types sufficient for such an undertaking<a name="FNanchor_5_5" id="FNanchor_5_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_5_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a>: for <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span>want of which, I have been put to the necessity, in -the word κὁρα, of writing an <i>alpha</i> for an <i>éta</i>.</p> +the word κὁρα, of writing an <i>alpha</i> for an <i>éta</i>.</p> <div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_5_5" id="Footnote_5_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_5_5"><span class="label">[5]</span></a> Though it is no uncommon thing for a country printer to be without Greek types, this could scarcely be a serious @@ -1267,7 +1217,7 @@ the art of punning was among the most refined wits at Rome, and that in the most polite ages, as will appear from the following quotations.</p> -<p>Quinctilian says<a name="FNanchor_6_6" id="FNanchor_6_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_6_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a>, "Urbanitas est virtus quædam, +<p>Quinctilian says<a name="FNanchor_6_6" id="FNanchor_6_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_6_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a>, "Urbanitas est virtus quædam, in breve dictum, verum sensu duplici, coacta, et apta ad delectandos homines," &c. Thus translated, "Punning is a virtue, comprised in a short @@ -1279,7 +1229,7 @@ the ladies."</p> <p>Lucretius also,</p> <p> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Quò magìs æternum da dictis, Diva, leporem.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Quò magìs æternum da dictis, Diva, leporem.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="margin-left: .5em;">"Goddess, eternal puns on me bestow."</span><br /> </p> @@ -1287,10 +1237,10 @@ the ladies."</p> <p>And elsewhere,</p> <p> -<span style="margin-left: .75em;">Omnia enim lepidi magìs admirantur, amántque</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: .75em;">Germanis quæ sub verbis latitantia cernunt:</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: .75em;">Omnia enim lepidi magìs admirantur, amántque</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: .75em;">Germanis quæ sub verbis latitantia cernunt:</span><br /> <span style="margin-left: .75em;">Verbaque constituunt simili fucata sonore,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: .75em;">Nec simili sensu, sed quæ mentita placerent.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: .75em;">Nec simili sensu, sed quæ mentita placerent.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="margin-left: .5em;">"All men of mirth and sense admire and love</span><br /> <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span><span style="margin-left: .75em;">Those words which like twin-brothers doubtful prove;</span><br /> @@ -1301,7 +1251,7 @@ the ladies."</p> <p>Thus Claudian:</p> <p> -<span style="margin-left: .75em;">Vocibus alternant sensus, fraudisque jocosæ,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: .75em;">Vocibus alternant sensus, fraudisque jocosæ,</span><br /> <span style="margin-left: .75em;">Vim duplicem rident, lacrymosaque gaudia miscent.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="margin-left: .5em;">"From word to word th' ambiguous sense is play'd;</span><br /> @@ -1322,7 +1272,7 @@ the ladies."</p> <p> <span style="margin-left: .75em;">Dicta, sales, risus, urbana crepundia vocum,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: .75em;">Ingenii facilis quæ documenta dabunt.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: .75em;">Ingenii facilis quæ documenta dabunt.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="margin-left: .5em;">"Jokes, repartees, and laugh, and pun polite,</span><br /> <span style="margin-left: .75em;">Are the true test to prove a man is right."</span><br /> @@ -1360,8 +1310,8 @@ upon an abbot, who died in a field, having a lily growing out of his a—:</p> <p> -<span style="margin-left: 7em;">"Habe mortem præ oculis.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 7.25em;">Abbé mort en prez au culiz."</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7em;">"Habe mortem præ oculis.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7.25em;">Abbé mort en prez au culiz."</span><br /> </p> <p>Nor was his bounty less to Monsieur de Ferry @@ -1458,7 +1408,7 @@ entertainment agreeable. The words are these: Carpe. Ego, suspicatus ad aliquam urbanitatem <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span>toties iteratam vocem pertinere, non erubui eum qui supra me accumbebat hoc ipsum interrogare. -At ille qui sæpius ejusmodi ludos spectaverat, +At ille qui sæpius ejusmodi ludos spectaverat, Vides, inquit, illum qui obsonium carpit, Carpus vocatur. Itaque quotiescunque dicit Carpe, eodem verbo et vocat et imperat." And it is further remarkable, @@ -1601,7 +1551,7 @@ Swift<a name="FNanchor_9_9" id="FNanchor_9_9"></a><a href="#Footnote_9_9" class= with a frisk of her mantua,</p> <p> -<span style="margin-left: 4.5em;">"Mantua væ miseræ nimium vicina Cremonæ!"</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4.5em;">"Mantua væ miseræ nimium vicina Cremonæ!"</span><br /> </p> <div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_9_9" id="Footnote_9_9"></a><a href="#FNanchor_9_9"><span class="label">[9]</span></a> In the early editions of the tract, this admirable pun is @@ -1749,7 +1699,7 @@ of the <i>English</i> tongue?</p> <p>A. According to <i>Buck</i>-anan, a great number; viz. <i>cat-egorical</i>, <i>dog-matical</i>, <i>crow-nological</i>, <i>flea-botomy</i>, <i>fish-ognomy</i>, <i>squirril-ity</i>, <i>rat-ification</i>, -<i>mouse-olæum</i>, <i>pus-illanimity</i>, <i>hare-editary</i>, <i>ass-tronomy</i>, +<i>mouse-olæum</i>, <i>pus-illanimity</i>, <i>hare-editary</i>, <i>ass-tronomy</i>, <i>jay-ography</i>, <i>stag-yrite</i>, <i>duck-tility</i>.</p> <p>Q. Where were the first <i>hams</i> made?</p> @@ -2020,7 +1970,7 @@ person makes an excellent pun, and you immediately fix another upon it; as Dean Swift one day said to a gentleman, who had a very little bob wig, 'Sir, the <i>dam</i> of your wig is a <i>whisker</i>;' upon -which I came in very <i>à propos</i>, and said, 'Sir, +which I came in very <i>à propos</i>, and said, 'Sir, that cannot be, for it is but an <i>ear-wig</i>.'</p> <p>R. 23. The Rule of Desertion allows you to @@ -2120,7 +2070,7 @@ world? Ans. <i>Versos Alexandrinos</i>, <i>i. e.</i> All-eggs-and-dry-nose.</p> <p>R. 30. The Rule of Naturalization is, that punning is free of all languages: as for the Latin <i>Romanos</i> you may say 'Roman nose'—<i>Temeraria</i>, -'Tom, where are you?'—<i>Oxoniæ prospectus</i>, 'Pox +'Tom, where are you?'—<i>Oxoniæ prospectus</i>, 'Pox on you, pray speak to us. For the French <i>quelque<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span> chose</i>, you may say in English 'kick shoes.' When one says of a thief, 'I wish he was transported;' @@ -2132,7 +2082,7 @@ heart, for, if it continued raining all night, he would find them in the morning.'—'Pray, how so?'—'Why, sir,</p> -<div class="figcenter">'Nocte pluit tota, redeunt <i>spectacula</i> manè.'</div> +<div class="figcenter">'Nocte pluit tota, redeunt <i>spectacula</i> manè.'</div> <p>R. 31. The Rule of Random. When a man speaks any thing that comes uppermost, and some @@ -2289,7 +2239,7 @@ dispute, were the Dorians, who made nothing of saying <i>tin</i> for <i>soie</i>, <i>tenos</i> for <i>ekeinos</i>, <i>surisdomes</i> for <i>surizomen</i>, &c. From this too we have our <i>quasis</i> in Lexicons. Was it not, by rule the 34th, that -the Samaritan, Chaldee, Æthiopic, Syriac, Arabic, +the Samaritan, Chaldee, Æthiopic, Syriac, Arabic, and Persian languages were formed from the original Hebrew? for which I appeal to the Polyglot. And among our modern languages, are not the @@ -2326,7 +2276,7 @@ syllabarum et vocum, ut pro <i>De</i>cretum, pro Poly<i>carpus</i>, Poly<i>eopros</i>. Item ex syllabarum ellipsi, ut ait Althusisus, cap. iii. civil. convers. pro Casimirus, <i>J'rus</i>; pro Marcus, <i>Arcus</i>; pro Vinosus, -<i>Osus</i>; pro Sacerdotium, <i>Otium</i>. Sic, additione literæ, +<i>Osus</i>; pro Sacerdotium, <i>Otium</i>. Sic, additione literæ, pro Urbanus, <i>Turbanus</i>:" which exactly corresponded to every branch and circumstance of my rule. Then, indeed, I could not avoid breaking @@ -2452,7 +2402,7 @@ And makes him grin, and snarl, and snap.<br /> He sets the little cur at me;<br /> Kick'd, he leapt upon his knee;<br /> I took him by the neck to shake him,<br /> -And made him void his <i>album Græcum</i>.<br /> +And made him void his <i>album Græcum</i>.<br /> 'Turn out the stinking cur, pox take him!'<br /> Quoth Swift: though Swift could sooner want any<br /> Thing in the world, than a Tanta-ny,<br /> @@ -2878,7 +2828,7 @@ to <span class="smcap">SOUND</span>.</p> <p><span class="smcap">Horace</span> gives a sad example of this <i>spurious</i> wit, where (as <i>Dryden</i> humorously translates it) he makes <i>Persius</i> the buffoon exhort the patriot <i>Brutus</i> to kill Mr. <span class="smcap">King</span>, that is, -<i>Rupilius Rex</i>, because <i>Brutus</i>, when he slew <i>Cæsar</i>, had +<i>Rupilius Rex</i>, because <i>Brutus</i>, when he slew <i>Cæsar</i>, had been accustomed to <span class="smcap">KING-KILLING</span>.<br /></p> <p><span style="margin-left: 13.5em;"><i>Hunc</i> <span class="smcap">Regem</span> <i>occide; operum</i></span><br /> @@ -3108,7 +3058,7 @@ THE VICE OF PUNNING.<br /> <p>Within his cranium; and at table</p> -<p>Sits like the fox in Æsop's fable,</p> +<p>Sits like the fox in Æsop's fable,</p> <p>Watching the grapes he'd fain devour,</p> @@ -3144,7 +3094,7 @@ will <i>not fail</i> to insert this my special protest.</p> <p>I am a bashful young man of good fortune, who, to use the phrase of the mode, have just <i>come out</i>, -and made my <i>entré</i> into the world with the reputation +and made my <i>entré</i> into the world with the reputation of being a gentleman and a scholar. I could wish you to notice a minor evil in society which tends to poison the springs of taste and knowledge, @@ -3492,7 +3442,7 @@ of the <i>Anatomie Vivante</i> should take his motto from my favourite epistle in Horace—</p> <p> -<span style="margin-left: 17.5em;">'Annonæ prosit—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 17.5em;">'Annonæ prosit—</span><br /> <span style="margin-left: 17.5em;"><i>Vir</i><small> BONUS</small>.'"</span><br /> </p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[Pg 105]</a></span></p> @@ -3563,7 +3513,7 @@ opportunity of being introduced to the Doctor, and at length succeeded in obtaining an invitation to Mr. Thrale's. Having taken proper means to be frequently accosted by his name, which, in his own -fond imagination, was "<i>fama super æthera notum</i>," +fond imagination, was "<i>fama super æthera notum</i>," he sat for some time in expectation of being accosted by the Lexicographer. Finding, however, that his hopes were vain, he at length ventured to @@ -4671,7 +4621,7 @@ the mattrass-maker in Sackville Street, Dublin, who is a very pretty woman, remonstrated with her on having so long delayed sending home his order: "Sure your Lordship," said the good woman, with -great <i>naiveté</i>, "there's <i>no curled hair</i> to be had +great <i>naiveté</i>, "there's <i>no curled hair</i> to be had now in Dublin, neither for <i>love nor money</i>." "By the powers above," replied his Lordship, looking amorously, "but it was very plentiful in this city, @@ -5240,7 +5190,7 @@ Oh! yield thy pity to a starving wretch,<br /> <blockquote><p>Pierios vatis Theodori flamma Penates,<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Abstulit: hoc Musis, hoc tibi, Phœbe, placet?</span><br /> -O scelus, ô magnum facinus, crimenque deorum,<br /> +O scelus, ô magnum facinus, crimenque deorum,<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Non arsit pariter quod domus et dominus.</span><br /> <span style="margin-left: 19em;"><i>Martial</i>, Lib. xi. Epig. 94.</span><br /> <br /> @@ -5783,7 +5733,7 @@ That <i>Puns</i> were esteem'd both by <i>Hebrew</i> and <i>Greek</i>:<br /> Nay, more, that the gods loved and practised the fun,<br /> And their merriment owed to the mirth-making <i>Pun</i>.<br /> There's <span class="smcap">Buxtorf</span>, a learned <i>Chaldean</i>, hath told,<br /> -That Ptolemæus Philo-punnæus, of old,<br /> +That Ptolemæus Philo-punnæus, of old,<br /> Sent for six learned priests, for his principal city,<br /> To propagate <i>punning</i> and make the folks witty:<br /> And so well did the priests with the people succeed,<br /> @@ -5856,7 +5806,7 @@ I am sorry, Tom, to tell you that it is <i>groundless</i>."</p> <p>In the Latin version of the Bible there is the following passage:—<i>Tu es</i> <span class="smcap">Petrus</span>, <i>et super hanc petram -ædificabo meam ecclesiam</i>. The French, in +ædificabo meam ecclesiam</i>. The French, in rendering these words into their own tongue, convert them into a proof that St. Peter was the corner stone here spoken of—<i>Tu es</i> <span class="smcap">Pierre</span>, <i>et sur cette @@ -5936,7 +5886,7 @@ cold day</i>."</p> public appearance, it was observed by one, that they looked as formidable as so many <i>Alexanders</i>. "Rather say," said another, "that they appear more -like <i>Seizers</i>," (Cæsars.)</p> +like <i>Seizers</i>," (Cæsars.)</p> <div class="figcenter"><small>COLLEGE PUN UPON PUN.</small><br /></div> @@ -6033,9 +5983,9 @@ Freeport."—"And now (replied the other), you are <div class="figcenter"><small>A GERMAN PUN.</small><br /></div> -<p>A young man of the name of Cæsar having married +<p>A young man of the name of Cæsar having married a young lady called Rome, a wag wrote upon -his door, "<i>Cave, Cæsar, ne tua Roma fiat respublica</i>."</p> +his door, "<i>Cave, Cæsar, ne tua Roma fiat respublica</i>."</p> <div class="figcenter"><small>A WHISTLING PUN.</small><br /></div> @@ -6091,7 +6041,7 @@ he), would you not have me <i>sell-fish</i>?"</p> <div class="figcenter"><small>A GAMBLING PUN.</small><br /></div> <p>At a ball given lately by a very rich individual, -M. de C. found himself <i>vis-à-vis</i> at a table <i>d'écarté</i>, +M. de C. found himself <i>vis-à -vis</i> at a table <i>d'écarté</i>, with a valet-de-chambre whom he had turned away some days before. "This time at least," said M.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">[Pg 173]</a></span> de S. to whom the circumstance was related, "this @@ -6152,7 +6102,7 @@ clapped into the Bastille, on a supposed charge of treason. The result was, that, in order to save his life, he gave up his possessions; on which the wits of Paris made this pun—"<i>Il donnoit Sedan</i> (ses -dents) <i>pour sauver sa tête</i>."</p> +dents) <i>pour sauver sa tête</i>."</p> <p>2. Madame de Stael has been much admired for her handsome figure, and particularly her fine arm, @@ -6172,7 +6122,7 @@ the Hague; but on account of some ceremonial being neglected, he refused to enter the gates of that place. This gave occasion to the wits of Paris to observe, that he was still "<i>ambassadeur -à la Porte</i>."</p> +à la Porte</i>."</p> <div class="figcenter"><small>COMMERCIAL PUNS.<br /> @@ -6501,7 +6451,7 @@ through the body with a rush. See I. 202.</p> <p>At v. 244, we have the mouse <i>Sitophagus</i>, who like many a soldier of modern times had recourse to his heels -and betook himself to a snug dry ditch—[Greek: êlato d'es +and betook himself to a snug dry ditch—[Greek: êlato d'es taphon]. I had always some suspicion that this name was particularly corrupted in the last syllable, and the foregoing circumstance has, fortunately for the literary @@ -6517,17 +6467,17 @@ the <i>art militaire</i> in Hudibras, where he learnt that</p> <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185">[Pg 185]</a></span></p> <p><i>Sitophagus</i>, from <i>Set off again</i>, is perfectly within -the canon of <i>parcè detorta</i>, which it may not be amiss +the canon of <i>parcè detorta</i>, which it may not be amiss here to repeat:</p> <p>"New words are allowable, if they descend," says Horace, "from the English<a name="FNanchor_28_28" id="FNanchor_28_28"></a><a href="#Footnote_28_28" class="fnanchor">[28]</a> spring, with a sparing distortion."</p> -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_28_28" id="Footnote_28_28"></a><a href="#FNanchor_28_28"><span class="label">[28]</span></a> Anglo <i>fonte cadent, parcè detorta</i>. +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_28_28" id="Footnote_28_28"></a><a href="#FNanchor_28_28"><span class="label">[28]</span></a> Anglo <i>fonte cadent, parcè detorta</i>. </p><p> So Horace doubtless wrote, and thus I always read the passage, -correcting the corruption (<i>Græco</i> fonte) which has so long obtained, +correcting the corruption (<i>Græco</i> fonte) which has so long obtained, to the injury of truth and good letters.</p></div> <p>I have neither leisure nor inclination to go through @@ -6585,7 +6535,7 @@ that moment he bore his present name.</p> <p><i>L. Mummius</i>, a Roman consul, who acquired his cognomen of <i>mummius</i>, or <i>mummy us</i>, from being sent -against the Achæans, whom he beat most unmercifully.</p> +against the Achæans, whom he beat most unmercifully.</p> <p><i>Boreas.</i> This wind was long without a name, until the people feeling its northern blasts exceedingly @@ -6601,7 +6551,7 @@ to the wind, though we are at a loss to guess what they were, and are by no means willing to venture an hypothesis that may lead to indecency. It is worthy of remark, as an astonishing fact, that these -gentlemen are mentioned by Polyænus and Apollodorus, +gentlemen are mentioned by Polyænus and Apollodorus, but without a word in the <i>Stratagems</i> of the one, or in the <i>Bibliotheca</i> of the other, that throws any light on the matter.</p> @@ -6612,7 +6562,7 @@ his friends very properly gave him the cognomen of <i>fill us, treat us</i>. The penultimate of Philostratus is short in its derived state, but this is a liberty perfectly excusable in these cases, and coming assuredly under the -description of <i>parcè detorta</i>.</p> +description of <i>parcè detorta</i>.</p> <p><i>Mannus.</i> It is imagined that this divinity obtained his name from having once undertaken to furnish some @@ -6620,7 +6570,7 @@ his name from having once undertaken to furnish some other reasons, I confess that I have no great faith in this etymology.</p> -<p><i>Æsymnus.</i> This anxious politician's consulting +<p><i>Æsymnus.</i> This anxious politician's consulting Apollo, according to Pausanias, on the subject of legislation, made the witlings of his time call the God his nurse, and then in ridicule exclaim <i>ease him nurse</i>, @@ -6651,7 +6601,7 @@ written and spoken, <i>Dammon</i>.</p> Athen. So called because the moment she took the field on any side, that side had the battle <i>all hollow</i>.</p> -<p><i>Æsacus.</i> He persecuted a nymph so much who did +<p><i>Æsacus.</i> He persecuted a nymph so much who did not like him, that she at last plunged into the sea, and was metamorphosed into a parrot, and in that state still continued to exclaim, as she was wont, <i>he's a curse</i>, @@ -6714,7 +6664,7 @@ PUNS FOR ALL PERSONS AND SEASONS.<br /> <div class="figcenter">"Comitantibus armis,<br /></div> -<p><span style="margin-left: 15.5em;">PUN<i>ica</i> se—attollet <i>gloria</i>." <i>Virg. Æn.</i> iv.</span><br /></p> +<p><span style="margin-left: 15.5em;">PUN<i>ica</i> se—attollet <i>gloria</i>." <i>Virg. Æn.</i> iv.</span><br /></p> @@ -6798,11 +6748,11 @@ apothecary. Mrs.—— will say this, and you'll exclaim, <p>Invite a poor French priest<a name="FNanchor_29_29" id="FNanchor_29_29"></a><a href="#Footnote_29_29" class="fnanchor">[29]</a> to your table at these times. He is always to ask, when your children appear, -"<i>Est ce qu'ils sont tous par la même mère</i>?"</p> +"<i>Est ce qu'ils sont tous par la même mère</i>?"</p> -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_29_29" id="Footnote_29_29"></a><a href="#FNanchor_29_29"><span class="label">[29]</span></a> The word <i>Emigré</i>, which appears in this article as before printed, +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_29_29" id="Footnote_29_29"></a><a href="#FNanchor_29_29"><span class="label">[29]</span></a> The word <i>Emigré</i>, which appears in this article as before printed, would at once destroy the <i>unquestionable</i> right Swift has to the honour -of this MS. for <i>Emigré</i> did not obtain in our language till long +of this MS. for <i>Emigré</i> did not obtain in our language till long after his death.</p></div> <p>When you are to reply—"Yes, I believe they are all @@ -6822,7 +6772,7 @@ dear <i>Tom</i>, I wish the man would bring up the dinner."</p> <blockquote><p>Mr. ——. "<i>Bring up</i> the dinner, my love? Heaven forbid! As Dido says, that's '<i>sic sic</i>,' so so<a name="FNanchor_31_31" id="FNanchor_31_31"></a><a href="#Footnote_31_31" class="fnanchor">[31]</a>."</p></blockquote> -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_31_31" id="Footnote_31_31"></a><a href="#FNanchor_31_31"><span class="label">[31]</span></a> Æn. iv. 660.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[Pg 193]</a></span></p></div> +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_31_31" id="Footnote_31_31"></a><a href="#FNanchor_31_31"><span class="label">[31]</span></a> Æn. iv. 660.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[Pg 193]</a></span></p></div> <blockquote><p>You must not be too nice, as I observed before.</p></blockquote> @@ -6888,7 +6838,7 @@ salt.</p> <p><i>Mrs.</i> ——. My dear <i>Tom</i>, that rich dish will only give you the gout.</p> -<p><i>Mr.</i> ——. Pooh! "Chacun à son <i>gout</i>." Why +<p><i>Mr.</i> ——. Pooh! "Chacun à son <i>gout</i>." Why should not I eat it, as well as another?</p> <p><i>Mrs.</i> ——. Bless me, how you mangle that duck.</p> @@ -7021,7 +6971,7 @@ should be introduced, and there's no knowing what some dull fellow may not do, put an end to it at once<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197">[Pg 197]</a></span> with a pun. If he talk of war, suppose he means the <i>Pun</i>-ic war, and say that in your battles you are with -Livy—"<i>Punc</i>tim magìs quam cœsim peto hostem." +Livy—"<i>Punc</i>tim magìs quam cœsim peto hostem." If he speak of the army, look archly at your wife, and say you expect soon to have a son <i>in arms</i>, &c. Should he mention the Prince of Wales, inquire, which is @@ -7029,7 +6979,7 @@ greater, the <span class="smcap">Dolphin</span> <i>of France</i> or the <i>Princ <span class="smcap">Wales</span>? solving the question immediately with Juvenal's</p> -<div class="figcenter">"<i>Delphinis Balæna Britannica major.</i>"<br /> +<div class="figcenter">"<i>Delphinis Balæna Britannica major.</i>"<br /> Than <span class="smcap">Dolphins</span> greater is the <span class="smcap">British Whale</span>.<br /></div> @@ -7172,389 +7122,6 @@ are html links directing the reader to pages 70, 84, and 166, there are no illustrations on those pages in the original publication.</p> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Punster's Pocket-book, by -Charles Molloy Westmacott - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PUNSTER'S POCKET-BOOK *** - -***** This file should be named 40266-h.htm or 40266-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/0/2/6/40266/ - -Produced by Bryan Ness, Laura and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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