...voice was ringing out. " ' 'Tie good to be merry and wise, ' Tis good to be honest and true : 'Tie good to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new.' " " That is all very fine," said MJ. Hautaine, coolly ; " but when one has no intention either of being...

...twist 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 been...

...eye, —Sir Walter Scttt, " Marmion." 'Tis well to be merry and wise, 'Tis well to be honest and true, 'Tis well to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new. — CR Maturin. The fat is in the fire! . — Heywotd. " O my prophetic soul! my uncle! " — Shakespeare....

...induce Colonel Berkeley to marry her she might be foolish not to let Mr. Haynes do so ; if it is best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new, it is nevertheless prudent not to be off with a new love while you are not sure you can keep on with the...

...the dear old rhyme : It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true ; It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new. There was never better truth spoken than this, and if all men and women could follow the advice here...

...either." She broke into sudden dimpling smiles. "You old goose!" "This is very honest of you — to want to be off with the old love before you are on with the new." She bit her lip to keep the laughter back. "Dick! How dare you?" He sat down beside her on the boul...

...quick question. She was blushing. Hilary laughed outright. "Oh, is that it? You want to be sure you are off with the old love before you are on with the new." "To-day Mr. Rosenbloom asked me if I would marry him. I've known ever since — well, ever since the...

...show her. And now to write Clement Harper, and then to take tea with Constance the inconstant. 'It's well to be off with the old love before you are on with the new.' " He locked the little handbag away in his bedroom. In the drawer in which he placed it lay the fragment...

...away. " Please yourself ; it's no affair of mine, of course ; but you know the old saying about being off with the old love before you are on with the new. . . . Oh, my dear, I didn't mean to upset you." Sonia burst out crying ; she evaded Lady Merriam's...

...rasp to the words that made them sound like a challenge. Carfax did not mince matters. "The inability to be off with the old love before you are on with the new," he said crisply. "Elizabeth has some rights which you ought to respect, don't you think?" "Go on,"...