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that undeviating steadiness and high resolve which turn neither 

 to the right nor to the left, and which are becoming in a work of 

 seriousness and importance, your labours will be adequately re- 

 warded, and in due time you may enjoy the inestimable satisfaction 

 of flourishing your mouchoir, with fingers scarcely distinguishable 

 from the snowy cambric. A diamond, or, for contrast, an oriental 

 emerald or ruby, set in unalloyed gold, (tant mieux, if graven with 

 an abraxas or other Hebrew insignia,) must glitter effectively upon 

 your fourth finger, and will be found a felicitous ally. 



For the benefit of all students of limited income, whether of 

 Guy's or Lincoln's Inn, minors under unconscionable restrictions, 

 apothecaries' boys, and ambitious youths of the counter and ell- 

 wand, we may hint before closing this part of our counsels, that 

 as the quality of costume is with a very considerable portion of 

 his majesty's subjects deemed a matter of very remote considera- 

 tion, provided the mode be attended to, there cannot be the 

 slightest difficulty in accommodating the texture, and consequently 

 the expense, of the preceding items to the state of the individual's 

 finances, however consumptive. With the philanthropic design 

 of aiding all youthful aspirants to put on the proper costume of 

 their species, a benevolent tailor has arranged a graduated scale 

 of charges for a Byron suit, comprehending a cloak of at least six 

 Flemish ells in circumference, &c., beginning at five guineas, and 

 rising proportionally to five hundred. With repect to the cloak 

 at the lowest cost, it is but fair to state that we have been pri- 

 vately apprised that it is mere »i\i^, mats quois done} who cares 

 for it? Many a Byron that now envelopes himself in his superb 

 Saxony and sables, passed a probationary period in the clinging 

 coverture of a camblet, and by an artful management worthy of 

 imitation, contrived so far to subdue its shrinking propensities as 

 to present a tolerably dignified representation oV superfine double- 

 milled" at distance and candle-light. But we forbear — a hmt is, 

 of course, sufficient ; and we refrain from pressing too heavily 

 upon ground that, like the Irishman's bog, may be unpleasantly 

 tenacious of intrusion. A few more words, and we have done. 

 All unhallowed gratifications of tea and toast and buttered crum- 

 pets, of pork griskins and cutlets, of sirloins and plum-puddinjis, 

 of turkey and chine, of ducks and green peas, and of other savoury 

 and beguiling condiments, must be held in religious abhorrence, 

 or yielded to in private. He who can swallow a score of poached 

 eggs, demolish a collar of brawn and a pound of hung beef, devour 

 a plate-full of prawns and another of muffins, and wash down the 

 trifle with some dozen dishes of " Padrae' or " Souchong" must 

 beware of the malign and observant eye — " tell it not in Gath, let 

 it it not be heard in Askelon 1" A demie-tasse of chocolate, and a 

 Reading-biscuit, may be ventured upon in public : but beyond this 

 the rubicon is passed, and the poet is for ever lost in the gourmand. 

 At dinner be not surprised into an unsentimental display of satis- 

 faction, even though your favourite dainties pile the board : gaze 

 listlessly, if at all, upon the seducing dish, and content yourself 



