...mischievous archness : " "Tis good to be merry and wise, 'Tin good to be honest and true, "Tis good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new." The party which sat down to dinner at Hazlehurst Grange on that day was a very select one. Mr. Hazlehurst...

...first step towards the amelioration of evils is the renunciation of the evils themselves. You must be off with the old love before you are on with the new ; and I am far from undervaluing the importance of that critical moment in a nation's progress when...

...you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny nonny ! SHAKSPEARE. Better bo off with the old love, Before you are on with the new. OLD SONG. THE summer had passed, the autumn come, and it was the close of the last day of September,...

...me in a most loathsome manner. Do bestir yourself, and be of some use. Remember the good old song, ' It is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.' Here you go running about after Floss, whom you have known rather less than a fortnight, and slighting...

...quarter, think you ? Poor Kitty, she has joined the dear departed; ah, well, but perhaps " "Pis as well to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." hummed the Ensign. "I say, Coventry," put in the good natured Major, talking in broad, north country...

...so; and I've a great mind to send her some green ribbon, and write inside the paper — ' 'Ti« good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.' Miss De Vere used to be uncommon strict in the Sunday school, and I should be very glad to tell her...

...engagement with the old one. He had, however, forgotten the wisdom contained in the old song — " "Tis best to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new." He ought to have in some way got rid of his original liaison before he allowed himself to he engaged...

...quarter, think you ? Poor Kitty, she has joined the dear departed ; ah, well, but perhaps " 'Tis as well to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the aew." hummed the Ensign. "I say, Coventry," put in the good natured Major, talking in broad, north...

...young mistress. Master Herbert, Master Herbert, why could you not call to mind the old proverb, " It 's well to be off with the old love before you are on with the new"? Had you done so, you might have saved yourself a considerable amount of humiliation. CHAPTER VI. INTERVIEW...

...Duneden is to have false friends, as well as her neighbours; and really the good old proverb ' It's well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new,' was most skilfully transmogrified into that effective adjuration respecting some nameless individual...