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Music! says he Skulls! says I. Metaphor continually: on one side of an Irish halfpenny there is a harp; this is expressed by the general term music, which is finely contrasted with the word skull. Down they come, three brown mazards.
"Why, my lard, as I was going past the Royal Exchange I meets Billy. 'Billy, says I, 'will you sky a copper? 'Done, says he; 'Done, says I; and done and done's enough between two jantlemen. With that I ranged them fair and even with my hook-em-snivey up they go. 'Music! says he 'Skulls! says I; and down they come, three brown mazards. 'By the holy! you flesh'd 'em, says he.
Mazards! how the diction of our orator is enriched from the vocabulary of Shakspeare! the word head, instead of being changed for a more general term, is here brought distinctly to the eye by the term mazard, or face, which is more appropriate to his majesty's profile than the word skull or head. By the holy! you flesh'd 'em, says he.
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