I vex not Gods, nor patron friend, For larger gifts or ampler store; My modest Sabine farm can lend All that I want, and more.
But not to a mob of rascals, who will be disappointed if they cannot vex their betters, and ruin an innocent woman's home, and spoil her peace only to show their power.
He was very angry when Major Haggens laughed and pounded the table, and said that our villages must keep to the same laws, and notvex one another.
You must do as your brother bade you; but as for doing the thing which would vexhim above everything else,--I cannot listen to more words.
O then I bravely vex And catch the gay Months in their gaudy plight, And slay them with the wreaths about their necks, Like foolish heifers in the holy rite, And raise great trophies to my ancient might.
If there is something of the quadruped in Dreyschock's marvelous execution (and this comparison should by no means vex him: is not a lion as much a quadruped as a poodle?
He bade her not vex herself at all about him, and not to wait until he became Sir Duke Lawless, but to give preference to seniority and begin with the title at once; which he has reason since to believe that she did.
And now nevervex yourself about the way of managing the business: the Sultan, like the great people of the world, has a fancy not for something better than he has already, but for something different, that may be new and singular.
I mightvex the reader still longer; but I willingly give up, and show him how the matter stood.
And to-day it's really very important not to vex him at all, if anything is to come of our plan.
