...the public is proverbially fickle, and too often reverses the old Scotch aphorism — " 'Tis well be off with the old love before you are on with the new." Miss Poole, though not an absolute Swedish nightingale, warbles as sweetly as any singing bird in the...

...then the custom for boys and young men, he played female characters.] QUOTATION-.— " It's good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new." Are these lines, commonly given in the above form, a modification of the old song — " It's gude to...

...before they are certain that they have something better to offer. The old proverb, "Be sure you are off with the old love before you are on with the new," is one all too apt to be forgotten by the enthusiasts who are unable to distinguish the difference...

...London Bridge, where they dismounted at the house of Jordan the Tanner. CHAPTEE VIII. " It's good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new." Old Song. BETAS FITZOSBEET was bom to be a hunter, his heart was ever in the wild woods " a chasing...

...but I believe the modern reading of another proverb is now the most received — • It's best not be off with the old love before you are on with the new,' and with the certainty we may now feel that we shall never be without many churches on our hands to...

...Irish love still be paramount ? Then he is doubly Traitor. The song says sooth, * It is well to be off with the old love ' Before you are on with the new.' Twenty-one years ago a young man passed, like Meagher, from college to prison for his country's sake....

...the ditchers are flirting with a new love ? Certainly it is but a small one, but " it is better to be off with the old love before you are on with the new." They should beware lest the dreaming magician return, and with a wave of his hand open their eyes,...

...joke. No, no ; I care for nobody, and nobody cares for me ; and she began to sing, ' 'Tis best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new/ By the by, I have brought home a relation with me — oh, such a dreadful old maid : very rich and...

...at length, however, my eye fell on a paragraph, headed in Brobdignagian letters, " It is good to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new ;" containing a coarse and calumnious allusion to Miss Sidney, and marked with so due a proportion...

...CHAPTER XI. ' /( it icell to be merry and wise. It ii well to be honest and true, It is u-ell to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." HE crisp fresh mornings of October, bright mornings full of bracing suggestions of rapid exercise,...