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THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR.

lates that, for the sake of some unprincipled or unfeeling fellow, she committed felo de se.

"'I căn ēndūre thīs crŭĕl pāin nŏ lōngēr;
Fare ye well, blue skies, rivers, fields, and song-birds!'
Thus the youth spoke; and adding, 'Oh, Jemima!'
Plunged in the billow!"

2. Measures reducible to no rule, or Doggrel. Sternhold and Hopkins were illustrious as Doggrel writers.