Here's that a spook may us affright,

Wherever we may roam;

For if the "ghost walks" not all right,
We actors must walk home.

ADAM'S CRYSTAL ALE

Here's to Old Adam's crystal ale,
Clear, sparkling and divine,

Fair H2O, long may you flow!
We drink your health (in wine).

ANON.

OLIVER HERFORD.

A GLASS IS GOOD

A glass is good, and a lass is good,

And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good, and the people are good And we're all good fellows together.

JOHN O'KEEFE, Sprigs of Laurel. ii, 1.

ALL CONDITIONS

A garland for the hero's crest,
And twined by her whom he loves best;
To every lovely lady bright,

What can I wish but faithful knight?
To every faithful lover, too,

What can I wish but lady true?

And knowledge to the studious sage;

And pillow soft to head of age.

SIR WALTER SCOTT.

ALL THE TAILS

Here's a health to Detail, Retail, and Curtail

Indeed, all the Tails but Tell-Tales.

ALL YOUR BEAUTIES

If all your beauties, one by one,
I pledge, dear, I am thinking
Before the tale were well begun
I had been dead of drinking.

Old Saying.

OLIVER HERFORD.

AMERICAN ARMY

May it ever be very small in peace, but grow to mighty dimensions and mightier achievements in war.

AMERICAN EAGLE

The liberty bird that permits no liberties.

AMERICAN NAVY

May it always be as anxious to preserve peace as to uphold the honour of the flag in war.

AMERICA'S DAUGHTERS

To America's daughters - Let all fill their glasses, Whose beauty and virtue the whole world surpasses; May blessings attend them, go wherever they will, And foul fall the man e'er offers them ill.

A MIGHTY PAIN

A mighty pain to love it is,

And 't is a pain that pain to miss ;
But, of all pains, the greatest pain

Is to love, but love in vain.

ABRAHAM COWLEY, Anacreontiques. vii. Gold.

A PRESSING LOVER

A pressing lover seldom wants success,
Whilst the respectful, like the Greek, sits down

And wastes a ten years' siege before one town.
NICHOLAS ROWE, To the Inconstant.

A PRETTY LASS

A cheerful glass, a pretty lass,

A friend sincere and true;

Epi., 1. 18.

Blooming health, good store of wealth,

Attend on me and you.

ANON.

AS BAD AS I AM

Here's to you, as good as you are,
And here's to me, as bad as I am;

But as good as you are, and as bad as I am,
I'm as good as you are, as bad as I am.

Old Scotch Toast.

AWAY WITH GLOOM

Then fill the bowl-away with gloom!
Our joys shall always last;

For hope will brighten days to come,

And memory gild the past.

THOMAS MOORE.

BANISH THAT FEAR

Banish that fear; my flame can never waste,
For love sincere refines upon the taste.

COLLEY CIBBER, The Double Gallant. v, I.

BETTER THE QUICKER

If you'd dip in such joys, come—the better, the quicker,
But remember the fee - for it suits not my ends
To let you make havoc, scot free, with my liquor,
As though I were one of your heavy-pursed friends.
HORACE, To Virgil. Bk. IV, Ode 12.

BLUSH, HAPPY MAIDEN

Blush, happy maiden, when you feel
The lips which press love's glowing seal ;
But as the slow years darklier roll,
Grow wiser, the experienced soul
Will own as dearer far than they
The lips which kiss the tears away.

ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN, Kisses.

BORE

May he give us a few brilliant flashes of silence.

BRISK WINE AND LOVELY WOMEN

Brisk wine and lovely women are
The source of all our joys;
A bumper softens every care
And beauty never cloys.

Then let us drink, and let us love,
While yet our hearts are gay;
Women and wine we all approve,
As blessing night and day.

BUBBLE WINKED

The bubble winked at me and said,

You'll miss me brother when you 're dead."

OLIVER HERFORD.

BUT I CAN DRINK

I cannot eat but little meat,

My stomach is not good;

But sure I think that I can drink

With him that wears a hood.

BISHOP STILL, Gammer Gurton's Needle. Act ii.

BYRON'S TOAST

Fill the goblet again; for I never before

Felt the glow which now gladdens my heart to its core.

Let us drink; who would not? since through life's varied

round

In the goblet alone no deception is found.

CADDIE'S WISH

'Ere 's to the 'ealth o' your royal 'ighness; hand may the skin o' ha gooseberry be big henough for han humbrella to cover hup hall your henemies.

In Erminie.