The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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"I wonder how it is," said my companion, afloat on a side issue like any woman, "that a fool like myself--an incompetent ass with no brains, eh?--always finds such a friend as you."

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I thought him rather an ass.

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Totemism in a modified form is found in the Old Testament where animals speak on occasion, as the serpent in Genesis, or Balaam's ass.

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He called me a 'kid' this morning, young silly ass that he is."

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He only makes an ass of himself, and I'm sure Maud laughs at him.

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I hope you won't think me an interfering ass, but I haven't a doubt in my mind that it is as I say--you have got a child to live for, and the sooner you come and see her the better.

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"Don't be an ass, Jack.

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I got a man with an ass to carry my baggage.

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AVERAGE PERIODS OF GESTATION OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS Mare 11 months Ass 12 months Cow 9 months Sheep 5 months Goat 5 months Sow 3-1/2 months Bitch 9 weeks Cat 8 weeks AVERAGE PERIOD OF INCUBATION Chicken 20 to 22 days Geese 28 to 34 days Duck 28 to 30 days Turkey 27 to 29 days Pigeon 18 days Guinea Fowl 28 days Pheasant 25 days Ostrich 40 to 42 days Canary Bird 14 days VETERINARY FACTS AND ADVICE TO REMEMBER 1.

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"If you didn't mean to be funny," he concluded, "you must be an ass."

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"Sorry I turfed[6] that little ass so hard," said the Duffer to John.

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"Kick it, Duffer--kick it, you old ass!"

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I believe the silly little ass thinks you the greatest thing on earth."

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"I expect he'll make an awful ass of himself."

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"You're a silly old ass!

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But he may make an ass of me."

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"No--hook it, you ass."

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"I'm a jealous ass, Caesar.

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"Don't look at me like that, you silly old ass!

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The law is a snob as well as a pedantic, pompous ass.

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And Belisarius first mutilated his nose and ears and then sent him riding on an ass into the enemy's camp.

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14 Wild ass, an engine used for throwing stones, V. xxi.

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Letters are franked by the assembly as far as the frontiers, by being stamped with red printers ink, _Ass.

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"Snubs," said the senior major, "are lost on such a pachydermatous ass as Gleason," and however tough might be his moral hide, and however deserved might have been the applied adjective, the major was in error in calling Gleason an ass.

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Will the day ever come when the author of this will not realize in mournful retrospect what an ass he made of himself the twelvemonth previous?

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They, the ladies, with the confiding, caressing, insinuating, and delicious impertinence of the sex, could and would hazard their suggestions to him in person, and were laughingly parried; but if any one among the men were ass enough to suppose that _all_ the old Ray had vanished he had only just to attempt to be jocularly familiar or inquisitive with him on that or a kindred subject, and get a Kentucky kick, as Blake called Ray's snubs, that would make him red in the face for a week.

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He had made an outrageous ass of himself, and had best write a full apology,--and he did.

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In his own set, men accustomed to formulate their opinions with complete independence and considerable shrewdness frequently remarked that Stan was an awful ass, but he could paint some.

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Granting him to be an ass, he certainly was a reasonably successful one, and he was even generally held to be a talented one.

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That editor was a _pukkah_ ass!

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I couldn't help thinking what an infernal ass I'd made of myself."

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This made him often chide Bonner, calling him 'ass,' though not so much for killing poor people as for not doing it more cunningly."

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"_The gravest beast is an ass; the gravest bird is an owl; The gravest fish is an oyster; and the gravest man is a fool_!" says honest Joe Miller; and with that Apophthegm the Compiler doffs his Cap and Bells, and leaves you, Gentle Reader, in the Merry Company he has brought together.

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"I can't exactly tell," replied the other; "but I can inform you that _an ass_ is older at twenty than a man at sixty!"

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DCXXV.--"WRITE ME DOWN AN ASS."

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In the course of their walk, they stopped to notice the gambols of an ass's foal.

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"HE that will never look upon an ass, Must lock his door and break his looking-glass."

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TO wonder now at Balaam's ass, is weak; Is there a day that asses do not speak?

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HASTE son of Celsus, P--rc--v--l is ill; Dissect an ass before you try your skill.

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TO wonder now at Balaam's ass were weak; Is there a night that asses do not speak?

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JEMMY GORDON, the well-known writer of many a _theme_ and _declamation_ for _varmint-men_, alias _non-reading_ Cantabs, having been complimented by an acquaintance on the result of one of his _themes_, to which the prize of a certain college was awarded, quaintly enough replied, "It is no great credit to be first in an _ass-race_."

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"Grill, you're an ass!"

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A CERTAIN Chief Justice, on hearing an ass bray, interrupted the late Mr. Curran, in his speech to the jury, by saying, "One at a time, Mr. Curran, if you please."

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A JUDGE, joking a young barrister, said, "If you and I were turned into a horse and an ass, which would you prefer to be?"

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"I've heard of an ass being made a judge, but a horse never."

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On one occasion, when asked by a medical friend what physician and apothecary he employed, to be always so well, he replied, "My physician has always been a _horse_, and my apothecary an _ass_!"

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", 233 Thurlow and Pitt, 121 Ticklish Opening, A, 324 Tierney's, Mr., Humor, 277 Tillotson, 280 Time Out of Joint, The, 187 Time Works Wonders, 112 Timely Aid, 243 Timely Flattery, 316 Timely Reproof, A, 115 Timidity of Beauty, The, 143 To the Coming Man, 313 Too Civil, 55 Too Civil by Half, 246 Too Clever, 250 Too Fast, 220 Too Good, 233 Too Grateful, 224 Too Liberal, 260 Too Many Cooks, 11 Too Much and Too Little, 244 Too Much at Once, 364 Too Much of a Bad Thing, 165 Too Cold to Change, 65 Top and Bottom, 140 Tory Liberality, 56 Touching, 109 Trade against Land, 156 Tragedy MS., 43 Transformation Scene, A, 201 Transporting Subject, A, 221 Transposing a Compliment, 41 Travellers See Strange Things, 317 Trophies, 210 True and False, 251 True Courtier, A, 43 True Criticism, 267 True Dignity, 261 True Evidence, 156 True Joke, A, 60 True of Both, 287 True Philosophy, 288 True Politeness, 164 True to the Letter, 287 True Wit, 123 Trump Card, A, 13 Truth and Fiction, 240 Truth and Rhyme, 137 Truth at Last, 133 Truth by Accident, The, 216 Truth for the Ladies, A, 100 Truth not Always to be Spoken, 88 Truth not to be Spoken at All Times, 78 Truth _v._ Politeness, 255 Trying to the Temper, 258 Twice Ruined, 79 Two Carriages, 275 Two Cures for Ague, 353 Two Make a Pair, 159 Two of a Trade, 77 Two Sides to a Speech, 90 Two Smiths, The, 28 Twofold Illustration, 42 Typographical Transfer, A, 332 Typographical Wit, 260 UGLY DOG, AN, 48 Ugly Trades, 304 Unanswerable Argument, An, 299 Uncivil Warning, 351 Unconscious Insult, An, 317 Unconscious Postscript, An, 206 Unequal Arrangement, An, 355 Unexpected Cannonade, An, 340 Unfortunate Lover, An, 181 Union is Strength, 51 Union of Opposites, 319 Unkind, 117 Unknown Tongue, 38 Unlikely Result, An, 348 Unpoetical Reply, 120 Unreasonable, 94 Unre-hearsed Effect, An, 65 Unremitting Kindness, 100 Untaxed Luxury, An, 319 Unwelcome Agreement, 158 Up and Down, 301 Up in the World, 9 Upright Man, An, 87 Use is Second Nature, 196 Useful Ally, A, 90 Utilitarian Inquiry, A, 328 VAILS TO SERVANTS, 85 Vain Search, A, 96 Vain Threat, A, 343 Valuable Beaver, A, 301 Valuable Discovery, 90 Value of Applause, 171 Value of Nothing, 241 Vast Domain, 21 Vera Cannie, 243 Verse and Worse, 118 Verses Written on a Window in the Highlands of Scotland, 15 Very Appropriate, 287 Very Clear, 46 Very Easy, 303 Very Evident, 213 Very Like Each Other, 270 Very Likely, 249, 312 Very Pointed, 22 Very Pretty, 102 Very Serious, 130 Very Shocking, if True, 254 Very True, 173, 286 Vice Versâ, 190 Visible Darkness, 10 Visible Proof, 82 Visibly Losing, 293 Voluminous Speaker, A, 148 Vox et Præterea Nihil, 147 Vulgar Arguments, 122 Vulgarity, 362 WALKING STICK, A, 326 Walpoliana, 107, 111, 119 Warm Friendships, 98 Warm Man, A, 348 Warning to Ladies, 54 Waste of Time, 42 Waste Powder, 18 Way of the World, 75 Way of Using Books, 175 Weak Woman, A, 11 Wearing Away, 347 Well-bred Horse, 9 Well Matched, 6 Well Said, 268 Well Turned, 346 Wellington, Duke of, and the Aurist, 87 Wellington Surprised, 250 Welsh Wig-ging, A, 26 Wet and Dry, 141 What Everybody Does, 294 What is an Archdeacon?, 295 What's a Hat without a Head?, 285 What's Going On?, 159 What's in a Name?, 279 What's in a Syllable?, 151 What's my Thought Like?, 305 Wheel of Fortune, The, 195 Where it came from, 316 Where is the Audience?, 183 Whig and Tory, 67 Whist, 244 Whist-Playing, 229 Whitbread's Entire, 359 White Hands, 287 White Teeth, 275 Who's the Fool?, 132 Who's to Blame?, 136 Whose?, 192 Why are Women Beardless?, 208 Why Master of the House?, 330 Wide-awake Minister, A, 347 Wide Difference, A, 345 "Wide, Wide Sea," The, 315 Wife at Forty, A, 45 Wignell, the Actor, 72 Wilberforce, Miss, 298 Wilkes and Liberty, 161 Wilkes and a Liberty, 143 Wilkes's Ready Reply, 224 Wilkes's Tergiversation, 114 Wilkie's Simplicity, 91 Will and Away, A, 259 Will and the Way, 193 Will, The, 104 Windy Minister, A, 259 Winner at Cards, A, 303 Winning a Loss, 160 Wise Decision, A, 348 Wise Fool, A, 198 Wise Precaution, 13 Wise Son who knew his own Father, A, 6 Wit and Quackery, 95 Wit Defined, 95 Wits Agreeing, 354 Witty at his own Expense, 365 Witty Coward, 236 Witty Proposition, A, 348 Witty Thanksgiving, 338 Wolfe, General, 167 Woman's Promises, A, 62 Women, 229 Wonderful Cure, A, 179 Wonderful Sight, A, 258 Wonderful Unanimity, 331 Wonderful Woman, A, 5 Wooden Joke, A, 314 Woodman, A, 63 Woolsack, The, 232 Word in Season, A, 340 Word to the Wise, A, 135 Words that Burn, 11 Worst of all Crimes, The, 63 Worst of Two Evils, The, 269 Worth the Money, 35 Worthy of Credit, 129 "Write me Down an Ass", 135 Writing for the Stage, 234 Writing Treason, 230 Written Character, A, 6 Wrong Leg, The, 48 YANKEE YARN, A, 157 Yorke, Mr. Charles, 361 Yorkshire Bull, A, 353 "You'll Get There Before I Can Tell You", 239 Young, Dr., 156 Young Idea, The, 247 ZODIAC CLUB, THE, 37 Transcriber's notes Corrections to the Text.

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Aye, and a good fight it was and over the wall did he send with the speed of a wild ass and fierce blows, a lad twice his size.

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"A mild ass well beaten,--ha--ha!"

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Yet by all the worms of torment shall not that Galilean ass take from me the comely one of Bethany!" he muttered.

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The ears of an ass are thine."

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Also he particularly disliked the young architect who was superintending the works ("a priggish ass," who gave himself abominable airs--except to Daphne, whom he slavishly obeyed, and to Miss Farmer, with whom Roger had twice caught him gossipping).

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_From Ass.

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"Come up, Buller," to a favourite ass.

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"Of course," said he, "I know I'm an ass, and I wouldn't mind it on my own account.

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), in the course of a review of Richardson's _Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa, &c._: "To avert the evil eye from the gardens, the people (of Mourzak) put up the head of an ass, or some portion of the bones of that animal.

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The same superstition prevails in all the oases that stud the north of Africa, from Egypt to the Atlantic, but the people are unwilling to explain what especial virtue there exists in an ass's skull."

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It appears (see the quotations in Facciolati) that this sage and laughter-moving remark of Crassus was made on seeing an ass eating a thistle; whereon he exclaimed, "Similes habent labra lactucas."

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"No," answered Saul, "I was ass enough to arrest you."

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And you 've made all sorts of an ass of yourself.

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"You damned ass!" growled Barstow.

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Look here," he pursued, confidentially, but coloring; "I'll tell you something, if you won't think me an ass.

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"Quite so; lay it to my being more than a gentleman; lay it to my being a crack-brained enthusiast, a confounded beauty worshiper, a vicious curio dealer, an ill-mannered ass!

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What an ass the public is!"

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They set him on an ass, and were conducting him towards the city, when he was met on the road by Herod and his father Nicetes, who took him into their chariot, and endeavored to persuade him to a little compliance, saying: "What harm is there in saying Lord Cæsar, or even in sacrificing, to escape death?"

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"She gave me to believe you made a good deal of an ass of yourself this morning," nodded Monte.

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I made an ass of myself until I met her.

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He must leave her cheerfully and jauntily--as the care-free ass known to her and to the world as just Monte.

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The first time she left me I made an ass of myself, and that was because I had not then got hold of the essential fact of love.

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Naturally, he hated an infidel with that kind of petulant bitterness which possesses an old lady in a country village, who has just heard that some wicked people dispute the story of Balaam's ass.

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Innocent as children may seem to be, he replies, 'yet if they are out of Christ, they are not so in God's sight, but are young vipers, and are infinitely more hateful than vipers, and are in a most miserable condition as well as grown persons; and they are naturally very senseless and stupid, being _born as the wild ass's colt_, and need much to awaken them' (iii.

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The pleasures are the twenty thousand prizes, Which nothing but a _downright ass_ despises.

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"Come up, d----n your eyes," said an ill-favoured fellow with an immense cudgel in his fist, driving an ass laden 1 Quid--A.

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"{2} At this moment, a sturdy youth, about sixteen or seventeen years of age, was seen at a short distance riding the runaway-ass back again.

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Billy perceiving this, became a little more reconciled to his rough usage--swore he never would strike a voman, so help him G----d, for that he was a man every inch of him; and as for Mother Mapps, he'd be d----nd-if he vouldn't treat her with all the pleasure of life; and now he had got his own ass, he vould go along with her for to find her mackarel.

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"Bl----st me if I know," replied Limping Billy, "for I was a looking out for my own ass--let's have the Sprig of Shelalah, _ould Blackymoor_--come, tune up."

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The Bug-destroyer _munched_{2} a candle and _sluiced_{3} his greasy _chops_{4} with _Jacky_{5} almost as fast as they could supply him with it, when Sparkle perceiving the boy was still at the door with the runaway ass, "Come," said he, "we'll start 'em off home in high style--here, you Mr. Bugman, can you ride?"

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Does your Cousin want a horse, an ass, or a filly?"

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stir him up with a long pole; the like never seen before; here's the head of an owl with the tail of an ass--all alive, alive O!

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For since pleasure's joy's parent, and joy begets mirth, Should the subtlest casuist or sophist on earth Contradict me, I'd call him an ass and a calf, And boldly insist once for all, That the only criterion of pleasure's to laugh, And sing tol de rol, loi de rol lol."

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"In the Country how blest, when it rains in the fields, To feast upon transports that shuttle-cock yields; Or go crawling from window to window, to see An ass on a common, a crow on a tree.

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This sign, if I remember right, was to be seen a few years since in Union-street, Borough, and is not uncommon even now in France, where you may also find the 'Cochon sans Tete,' (the pig without a head,) which is generally a restaurateur's sign, indicating that 'good pork is here--the useless animal's head is off,' illustrative of the Negro's opinion of a pig in England--"de pig," said Mungo, "is de only gentleman in England--man workee, woman workee, horse workee, ass workee, ox workee, and dog workee--pig do nothing but eat and sleep--pig derefore de only gentleman in England.'"

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Then as to their utility: the choice of a witty device, or splendid enluminure, was formerly thought of great consequence to a young beginner in the world; and I remember reading of an Innkeeper at Cassel, who having considerably profited by his numerous customers under the sign of 'The Grey Ass,' supposing himself well established in his trade and his house, began to be tired of the vulgar sign over his door, and availed himself of the arrival of the Landgrave of Hesse, to make (as he thought) a very advantageous change.

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In an evil hour, therefore, 'The Grey Ass' was taken down and thrown aside, in order to give place to a well painted and faithful likeness of the Prince, which was substituted for it as a most loyal sign.

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"A small and almost unfrequented house in the same town, immediately took up the discarded sign, and speculatively hoisted 'The Grey Ass.'

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Old codgers, married men with scolding Avives at home, straggling young fellows, and all the 'fraternity of free topers,' resorted to the house, filled the tap-room, crammed the parlour, and assailed the bar: the Grey Ass had the run, and was all the vogue; whilst the venerable Prince of Hesse swung mournfully and deserted at the other place, and enticed no visitors, foreign or domestic; for it should be observed, that 'The Grey Ass' had such reputation all over Germany, that every foreign nobleman or gentleman who came to Cassel, was sure to order his coach or chaise to be driven to the inn of that name; and this order of course was still continued, for how was it to be known by travellers coming from Vienna, Hungary, or Bohemia, that a certain innkeeper at Cassel had altered his sign?

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To the inn, therefore, which was denominated 'The Grey Ass,' they still went.

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~~401~~~ The portrait of the Prince was preserved, but he had written under it, in large characters, 'This is the Original Grey Ass.'

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Yet he only valued riches as a means of doing good, puncturing the bladder of bloated wealth with this pin of thought: _"If thou art rich, thou art poor; For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, And Death unloads thee!

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In passing by the entrance gate to the lordly estate of Sir Thomas Lucy, or Justice Shallow, William nailed up the following poetic shot to the hot-headed old squire, which was read and copied the next morning, by all the market men going to town, and the tavern lads going to their country ploughs: _"The tyrant Thomas Lucy Lets no one go to mass, He's a squire for Queen Bess, And in Parliament an ass; Fair Charlecote is ruined By this bluffer of the state, And only his dependents Will dare to call him great.

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"_ Puck finds Bottom in the woods, rehearsing the play for the marriage of Theseus, and translates the weaver into an ass, with a desire for love.

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"_ Oberon relents and releases his Fairy Queen from her dream of infatuation with Bottom disguised as an ass, and says: _"But first, I will release the fairy queen, Be as thou wast wont to be;_ (Touching her eyes with the herb.)

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Methought I was enamored of an ass!

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"_ Titania is not the only woman who is enamored by an Ass; in fact the mismatched, cross-purposed, twisted, infatuated affections of the sordid, deceitful earth are as thick as blackberries in July, while pretense and pampered power greatly prevail around the globe.

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Man is but an ass, a patched fool.

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If thou art rich, thou art poor; For, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And Death unloads thee!

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The wild ass of the desert knows, By inborn knowledge, friends from foes.

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The tame ass of the village browses Contentedly between the houses.

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