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Updated: July 24, 2025
As old Fuller says, the writers have a hair hanging to the nib of their pen. Their shortness does not prevent them from being tiresome. They recall the French wit to whom a friend showed a distich: "Excellent," he said; "but isn't it rather spun out?"
But you will not say it right; I will write here above my distich: 'From the faithful Lysias to the fair Irene his future wife. There and now I think she will not send the thing back again, good girl that she is! Listen, rascal, if she keeps it you may swallow cakes to-day out on the Grand Square till you burst and yet I have only just paid five gold pieces for you.
I presume that the monosyllable, rhyme, comprehends pretty nearly all that the world at large intends by poetry; and, in the same manner as certain critics have sneered at Livy no, it was Tacitus for commencing his work with a bad hexameter, so many a reader will now-a-days condemn a whole book, because it is somewhere found guilty of harbouring a distich.
Then she carolled various pieces to rare measures, and amongst the rest one of mine, which consisted of this distich, 'Bare hills and campground desolate * And friends who all have ganged their gait. How severance after union leaves * Me and their homes in saddest state!
When the wallet and bowl had made the circuit of the table, they were suspended to a pillar in the hall. Each of the company in succession then threw some salt into his goblet, and, placing himself under these symbols of the brotherhood, repeated a jingling distich, produced impromptu for the occasion.
Not for yourselves, ye birds, your nests ye build; Not for yourselves, ye sheep, your fleece ye yield; Not for yourselves, ye bees, your cells ye fill; Not for yourselves, ye beeves, ye plough and till. The expedient immediately evinced him to be the author of the distich, and Bathyllus became the theme of public ridicule.
When singleness attacks division, you know the result beforehand. Why then should I spin words? I will not trace so ill-matched a contest step by step, sentence by sentence: let me rather hasten to relate the one peculiarity that arose out of this trite contest, where, under the names of Camille and Josephine, the two great sexes may be seen acting the whole world-wide distich,
"Do you know that he made this distich against the Jesuits?" "That makes no difference; the punishment seems very severe. Do not pity him; last year you seemed to interest yourself in him." "Yes, I did so." "Well, as your interest is all-powerful here, my lord, I have treated him since that time as a prisoner at fifteen francs."
"The only difficulty, gracious countess, has been to know where to fix the wandering choice of my bewildered eyes, where all alike are fair, and all alike facund." "We understand," said she, smiling; "Dan Cupid, choosing 'midst his mother's graces, Himself more fair, made scorn of fairest faces." The young scholar capped her distich forthwith, and bowing to her with a meaning look,
Oh, noble Porthos! careful heaper-up of treasure, was it worth while to labor to sweeten and gild life, to come upon a desert shore, surrounded by the cries of seagulls, and lay thyself, with broken bones, beneath a torpid stone? Was it worth while, in short, noble Porthos, to heap so much gold, and not have even the distich of a poor poet engraven upon thy monument?
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