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EPIGRAM FROM THE SPANISH OF REBOLLEDO.

(_For the Mirror_.)


Fair Phillis has fifty times registered vows,
That of Christian or Turk, she would ne'er be the spouse,
For wedlock so much she disdain'd,
And neither of these she has married, 'tis true,
For now she's the wife of a wealthy old _Jew_;
And thus she her vow has maintain'd!

E.L.J.

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THE LAWYER AND HIS CLIENT.

Two lawyers, when a knotty cause was o'er,
Shook hands and were as good friends as before,
"Zounds!" says the losing client, "how come yaw
To be such friends, who were such foes just naw?"
"Thou fool," says one, "we lawyers tho' so keen,
Like shears, ne'er cut ourselves, but what's between."