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                             BROAD GRINS;

                                  BY

                            GEORGE COLMAN,

                             THE YOUNGER;


                   COMPRISING, WITH NEW ADDITIONAL

                           TALES IN VERSE,

               THOSE FORMERLY PUBLISH'D UNDER THE TITLE

                    "MY NIGHT-GOWN AND SLIPPERS."


                       "DEME SUPERCILIO NUBEM."


                         THE EIGHTH EDITION.


                               LONDON:
               H. G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
                             MDCCCXXXIX.




ADVERTISEMENT.


MY Booksellers inform'd me, lately, that several inquiries had been made
for _My Night-Gown and Slippers_,--but that every copy had been
sold;--they had been out of print these two years.--"Then publish them
again," said I, boldly,--(I print at my own risk)--and with an air of
triumph. Messrs. Cadell and Davies advise'd me to make additions.--"The
_Work_ is, really, too short," said Messrs. Cadell and Davies,--"I wish,
gentlemen," return'd I, "my readers were of your opinion."--"I protest,
Sir," said they, (and they asserted it, both together, with great
emphasis,) "you have but _Three Tales_."--I told them, carelessly, it
was enough for the greatest _Bashaw_, among modern poets, and wish'd
them a good morning. When a man, as Sterne observes, "can extricate
himself with an _equivoque_, in such an unequal match,"--(and two
booksellers to one poet are tremendous odds)--"he is not ill off;"--but
reflecting a little, as I went home, I began