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SOVEREIGNS AND GUINEAS,

And the reigns in which they have been coined

EPIGRAMS ON THE FEES DEMANDED FOR SEEING WESTMINSTER ABBEY

Dame Godly desired the Abbey to view, Admittance, one sixpence, demanded the clerk, Which modest request in astonishment wrapt her, How long will you such imposition pursue? Faith ma'am, as to that we are left in the dark, But I think, for my part, to the end of the Chapter.6 Down with your cash, the Verger cries, How mean'st thou this? John Bull replies, What law protects th' extortion? Stop, gentle friend—what's law to us? The law's your own—so make no fuss, The profits are our portion. Poets and prophets 'mongst the ancient Romans Were deemed the same, and this our pockets rue, For on this creed is built our sacred showman's, Who has his poets and his profits too.

EPITAPH IN BRENTWOOD CHURCHYARD, ESSEX

Here lyes Isaac Greentree.

A wag passing through the churchyard, wrote as follows:—

There is a time when these green trees shall fall, And Isaac Greentree rise above them all.

GALLOWAYS—WHY PARTICULAR HORSES SO CALLED

Galloway is a county in Scotland that lies the most to the south and the nearest to Ireland. This county gives name to a particular breed of horses of a middling size, which are strong, active, hardy, and serviceable.

Tradition reports that this kind of horse sprung from some Spanish stallions, who swam on shore from some of the ships of the famous Spanish Armada wrecked on the coast.

C.K.W.

WARNING TO YOUNG LADIES

Intended as an "accompaniment" to a celebrated piece of Music, by Craven

Oh! ladies fair, tho' smooth the air, I send you now, I pray take care— Lest "THE LIGHT BARK" be, after all, Foredoom'd to perish in a squall!

PRINTER'S DEVIL.

ANNUALS FOR 1830

With the next number of "THE MIRROR," will be published the first SUPPLEMENTARY SHEET of the

SPIRIT OF THE ANNUALS FOR 1830,

With a fine Engraving from one of the most splendid embellishments of these popular works. The SUPPLEMENT will contain "the Amulet"—"Friendship's Offering," and Notices of as many more volumes as can consistently be brought within the compass of one sheet.

LIMBIRD'S EDITION OF THE

Following Novels is already Published:

1

Dr. Donne resided in a house of Sir R. Drury. Vide Life by honest Izaak Walton.

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2

He married a daughter of one of the Fine Barber-women of Drury Lane.

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3

A few weeks since we gave a copy of Robinson Crusoe to a young man, "whose education had been neglected," and who had never read this delightful book: the account of his delight from its perusal has more than recompensed us tenfold.

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4

We should like to see a volume of poems written by Wordsworth, and illustrated by Gainsborough. How delightfully too would a few of the poet's lines glib off in a Juvenile Annual.

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5

He was sent at the age of ten years to a school at Wexin, the master of which was so severe as entirely to destroy his spirits, and repress the early indications of his extraordinary talents.

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6

The Dean and Chapter of Westminster are supposed to receive the money paid for seeing the Abbey.

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