On a little Print of a Man driving an Ass On seeing the Messrs. Grieve (three) announced in the Theatrical Wit A Paul Pry On Robin Hood, in Kirklees Park, Yorkshire On Lady Mary Montague, in Litchfield Cathedral On Dame Rebecca Berry, at Stepney On Charles, Earl of Dorset, at Wytham, Essex On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke In an obscure Church-yard in Scotland On Mr. John Comb, of Stratford-on-Avon, by Shakspeare 247 In Thetford Church-yard, Norfolk On the Tomb-stone of Lady Margaret Scot, at Dalkeith CHURCH-YARD GLEANINGS. "The pious work of names once famed ; "Sic transit gloria mundi.” IN ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL. WALKERS, whosoere you be! Of BISHOP NORMAN here inhum'd, This being by Barkham's thankfull minde renew'd, IN ST. MARY'S, YORK. Nigh to the River Ouse, in York's fair city, Came sudden Death-and life, like water, spill'd. These lines are in the church-yard on a tombstone sacred to the memory of a young maid, who was accidentally drowned, Dec. 24, 1696.-The inscription is said to be penned by her lover. B IN GREY FRIARS, EDINBURGH, Was that which chas'd me from my native land: These lines are on the monument of the Earl of Argyle, who was beheaded at Edinburgh, June 30, 1685. It is asserted, that this noble person wrote the lines foregoing, upon the day before his execution; that in that light they may be considered as a very strong instance of the quiet of his conscience, and of the serenity of his mind. But, besides this, they may be read to another end; for in them we plainly see his sentiments of the cause in which he died, and that to his very last moment he remained persuaded that he had done nothing contrary to the laws of his country, or, consequently, to the laws of God. IN ST. BENNET'S, PAUL'S WHARF, LONDON. Here lies one More, and no More than he. One More, and no More! how can that be? Why one More, and no More, may well lie here alone: But here lies one More, and that's More than one. ON A BELLOWS-MAKER. Here lieth John Cruker, a maker of bellows; |