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Sirs, our honour is in our bosoms, and there is the only throne armies cannot shake, nor cozeners undermine." With these words he gently waved his hand, motioned to his squire, who stood out of hearing with the steeds, to approach, and mounting, gravely rode on. Ere he had got many paces, he called to Marmaduke, who was on foot, and bade him follow him to London that night.
Among rogues and idle persons, finally, we find to be comprised all proctors that go up and down with counterfeit licences, cozeners, and such as gad about the country, using unlawful games, practisers of physiogonomy and palmestry, tellers of fortunes, fencers, players, minstrels, jugglers, pedlers, tinkers, pretended scholars, shipmen, prisoners gathering for fees, and others so oft as they be taken without sufficient licence.
And that which can be examined with cowardly eyes is to be christened "beautiful!" Oh, ye violators of noble names! But it shall be your curse, ye immaculate ones, ye pure discerners, that ye shall never bring forth, even though ye lie broad and teeming on the horizon! Verily, ye fill your mouth with noble words: and we are to believe that your heart overfloweth, ye cozeners?
I have sometimes envied rich citizens, but it was a mean and erroneous feeling. This man, who, I suppose, must be as rich as a Jew, had a shabby look in the Duke's presence, and seemed just a better sort of pedlar. Better be a poor gentleman after all. May 9. Grounds of Foote's farce of the Cozeners. Lady . A certain Mrs.
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? 'Communis error it is a general mistake, answered the inflexible Dominie Sampson. 'Not so, replied the young Englishman; 'it is a general and well-grounded belief. 'It is the resource of cheaters, knaves, and cozeners, said Sampson. 'Abusus non tollit usum.
"And, indeed sir, there are cozeners abroad; therefore it behoves men to be wary." Clo. "Fear not thou, man, thou shalt lose nothing here." Ant. "I hope so, sir, for I have about me many parcels of change." Winter's Tale. Such was the state of things at Porto Ferrajo at noon, or about the hour when its inhabitants bethought them of their mid-day meal.
This singular anecdote was touched upon by Foote, and is the cause of introducing the negress into the Cozeners, though no express allusion to Charles Fox was admitted. Lady tells me that, in her youth, the laugh was universal so soon as the black woman appeared. It is one of the numerous hits that will be lost to posterity.
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?" "Communis error it is a general mistake," answered the inflexible Dominie Sampson. "Not so," replied the young Englishman; it is a general and well-grounded belief." "It is the resource of cheaters, knaves, and cozeners," said Sampson. "Abusus non tollit usum.
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? 'Communis error it is a general mistake, answered the inflexible Dominie Sampson. 'Not so, replied the young Englishman; 'it is a general and well- grounded belief. 'It is the resource of cheaters, knaves, and cozeners, said Sampson. 'Abusus non tollit usum.
But marvel and consider and humble you in the dust to think that a man with my brain pan and all it holds could have been so cozened. For sure, a dolt like you would have been stripped more clean till you had neither nails to your toes nor hair to your eyebrows. Hal Poins snarled that Culpepper would have been shaved too but that red hair stunk in the nostrils even of cozeners and thieves.
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