...gathering in their might, REPUBLICAN SONGSTER. THE FATE OF A FOWLEBr. 49 [Showing how it is best to be off with the Old Love before you are on with the New.] Tune—" Lord Lovel." A FOWLKB. one morning a poaching would go, " I'm in for a bagful," quoth he ;...

...! " And, 'pon my word, you know, he is a devilish lucky fellow !" WHIFF No. IV. " Its as well to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new." Old-fashioned Song. He sees now, clearly as then, the river rippling by, and the long rushes waving...

...to have false friends, as well as her neighbours; and really the good old proverb ' It's well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new,' was most skilfully transmogrified into that effective adjuration respecting some nameless individual...

...Chanticleer's neck for it, till he could no more cry cock-a-doodle than a cork-screw ? If it be " well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new," it is particularly a prudent principle with regard to old and new years. For example, had this work...

...have been thinking,' she said, of an old song which contains a morsel of good advice — Be sure to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new. You begin by making passionate love to me, and all at once you turn round to one of my young friends,...

...among the rest. Why not ? ' ' Well,' Anstruther answered, ' at any rate no one can accuse you of not being off with the old love before you are on with the new.' ' Love ? ' cried the other ; ' it was only this morning on the lawn that I found out what it meant....

...so the days wore on one by one, one by one. There is an old adage which says — " 'Tis good to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." But Basil Brooke thought that it is better still to keep on with both until you see which is likely...

...loose with each accordingly. The old adage is certainly verified in her case, that it is good to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new, for she gets into trouble on all sides, viz., her irate parents, indignant partially-discarded lover,...

...And her mother was consumptive." " It's the worst policy in the world," said Colonel Wilton, " to be off with the old love before you are on with the new. Of course, it's quite right afterwards; but before, when nobody knows what may happen ! I have always...

...glance at Mr. St. John, she sang out, in her clear, rich voice, to a tune of her own, " It is well to be off with the old love, Before you are on •with the new." Adeline rose, and passed quietly into the drawing-room, her step self-possessed, her bearing calm :...