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Heroes mischievously gay, Lords of the street and terrors of the way, Flush'd as they are with folly, youth, and wine. -- Johnson's London.
Hol. Novi hominem tanquam te -- his humour is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general behaviour vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical. -- Shakspeare.