Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-12-29
The Novel of the ages.
AN OLD TALE EVER NEW.

! was nothing new llnder ana lnclu-
ding the sun. King Solomon made
a similar remark. A novel lately
4 published illustrates the saying,
whoever originated it. 1t is called
by a variety Of names, and is fa-
miliar to every novel reader.
The principal characters are our
time honored young friends Charles
and Angelina, formerly Lubin and
Chloe, once Corydon and Phillis,
alias Romeo and Juliet, and 80 on
to the remotest antiquity.
Their principal speeches are as
follows:
He-"Adorable creature will
You be mine? ] offer you my hand
and heart, together with superior
inducements for accepting the same,
consisting of a brown stone front,
an unincumbcred real estate and
first class securities"
She-"Object of my affections !
Your terms are entirely satisfactory
to me, and no doubt will be equally
50 to my papa, to whom beg leave
to refer you" (FaliiHg into his
arms.
There are plagiarisms more or
less direct from the same old story,
published at any time during the
worlds history between this and
the invention Of letters, which is
mot due to Professor Cadmus, by
the-by, but Aam- All Kim Bo, twen-
ty thousand years before his time.
He published the first edition of the
story in China, even then yenera-
BILE tradition.
In the edition of 1900 it appears
as follows:
He-"Sweet lady! 1 prithee re-
ward with thy lover true, who
pledges thee his hand and heart
Certes offer thee 10 unequal dow
er. These goodly towers and
these broad domains shall call thee
mistress, and gold shall fill thy
Golfers"
Sha-"My bosom's lord, thy no
bleness is well deserving my poor
love, and well ] trow will win my
sire's consent. Good faith, in heav-
ems name seek him "-(Lets do,on
her 6ack hair and swoons.
Similarly in A. D. 1000, they
courttd thus:
He-"Fayre Ladye, bend thyme
eyne on true knight and reward his
/ deyior with thy love. By'r Ladye!
he layes at thy feete guerdon meete
for prize so high. My castles
strcngthe shall bid defiance to We
caytitfe toe, and gallant knights on
Wonder broade desmense laye lance
4 in reste to WHINE thy smyles, while
churlish boots and mysbelieveinge
Jewes shall furnish they're broad
pieces for thy largesse."
Shee-" Alack, Sir Knight, l
yieide NEE true captive to thy
wordes, succour or noe succcor--
My ransome is thy dowrie richie.
HE thee from my bouerre to ye
Knight my sire, and bid him greet
the Some u She swoons inn the
Knight hyS armes.)
And in like manner thl Tough the
early Saxon and ancient British
dialects [ (which would be more un-
intelligi6le than lovers speeches
generally are }, the Latin and Greek,
up to the original Chinese as afOre-
said.
The Irish version is:
"Musha darlint' it's dyin' l am
for We this blessed mint, glory be
to God! The shebaug is lonely
widout you, Judy d; come acushla,
there's an illgant patch of TWO dir
tv acres or SO, with praties and pigs
galore, and mabe a pound or two
in his riverance S hands, waitin to
call you misthress.
BE aisy, Pat, ye're the diviP'
own boy for blarney, God knows
sure the ould mans beyant, ano
vhoD ye'ro dacent aud sober you
might ak him."
The Scotch version read thus;
~Eh lassie will We tax me fol
vou ain joe! There'es nae luck
about the house till ye bide int
and the bonnie farm and the wee
bit siller is Lac sic bad invest
ment."
"Hoot ava, man dinna fash me
wi your sveerin. | doot We mean
weel, sac bide ava mon, bide ava
the auld mans by, and ye maye'en
settle the case WI him"
The display of the emotion is
omitted by the last two ladies, but
their sentiments are the same as
the Others, and the fortunes Of the
gentlemen not different, Charles
GOES to Parliament, and Pat to thC
Common Council, Sir Reginald Is
elected to the Round Table, an(
Romeo to the Council of Ten o
would have been if he hadn't pois
oned Iimself) while Donald slt'
with the elders in the kirk, and II
as fat, respectable, and uninterest
ing as any of them.
The chapters from which th'
foregoing specimens are takel
wind up with these words: "Io b.
= continued'-which is true in ever
, sense of che word. The risinl
generation will please take note.
The Hamilton o. correspondent
of the Cincinnati Gazette Of tn
: 18th, says:
t.o,e f.o m tho United State