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An' let me whisper this, sirra, I'll be dam useful in fairs and markets to help the Orangemen to lick ourselves, your honor, in a skrimmage or party fight, or anything o' that kidney." "I am sorry, Nick Fistula, as you say your name is " "Mickey, sirra." "Well, Nickey, or Nick, or whatever it may be, I am sorry to say that you won't do.
"Explain yourself, sir!" said his master, authoritatively. "What do you mean by the deed is done? You haven't got married, I hope. Perhaps the cousin you went to see was your sweetheart?" "No, sir, I haven't got married. God keep me a little while longer from sich a calamity? But I have put you in the way of being so." "How, sirra put me into a state of calamity? Do you call that a service?"
Excuse me, O'Hare, I speak to you as a Christian, I humbly trust." "By G , that's good, father," exclaimed Phil, "M'Slime preaching to such a fellow as this!" "I humbly thank you, sir," said O'Hare to Solomon, "for your kindness in " "Thank the devil, sirra," said Phil; "What the devil does he or I care about your d d thanks. Have you your rent?"
Enter Buzzano. Buz. Did you call? Hen. Yes, the Balme here Buz. What shall I doe with it? Hen. Lay it up safe; 'tis good for a greene wound But mines a blacke one: and d'you heare, sirra, Draw up the bridge, give entrance unto none. Buz. All my fellowes are abroad, sir; there's nobody at home but I. Hen.
But who are those that have attempted this suit, other than such as either hate learning, piety, and wisdom, or else have spent all their own, and know not otherwise than by encroaching upon other men how to maintain themselves? When such a motion was made by some unto King Henry the Eighth, he could answer them in this manner: "Ah, sirra!
How now, why is this laughter? Fer. One of the soldiers, being merry among themselves, is somewhat bold with th'English, and sayes th'are dainty Hennes. Mac. Sirra, view well these soldiers, And freely telle us, thinke you these will prove Such hens as are your English, when next yeare They land in your owne Country. Pike. I thinke they will not, My lord, prove hens, but somewhat neere to hens.
"Good heavens!" exclaimed the squire, "this is dreadful: but is it true, sirra?" "Why, sir, if you go to his house you'll find it so." "Oh, papa," said Helen, "surely they wouldn't hang him?" "Hang him, Helen; why, Helen, the tide's turned; they want to make him an example for the outrages that he and others have committed against the unfortunate Papists.
My sorrowes are their triumphes; so in kings courts, When officers are thrust out of their roomes, Others leape laughing in while they doe mourne. I am at your mercy. Mac. Sirra Englishman, Know you that weapon? reach it him. Pike. Yes, it Was once mine; and drawes teares from me to think How 'twas forced from me. Mac. How many Spanyards Killd you with that sword? Pike.
I only wish I had those ruffianly scoundrels to deal with; I would teach them manners to their betters at all events; and you, sirra, why did you not use your whip and chastise them?" "Faith, ma'am," replied our friend Barney Casey, "it's aisier said than done wid some of us.
Sirra Pasha is a full-faced man of medium height, black-eyed, black-haired, and, like nearly all Turkish pashas, is rather inclined to corpulency. Like many prominent Turkish officials, he has discarded the Turkish costume, retaining only the national fez; a head- dress which, by the by, is without one single merit to recommend it save its picturesqueness.
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