Suspended here, a contest see, Of two whose creeds cou'd ne'er agree, For whether they would preach or pray, They'd do it in a different way; And they wou'd fain our fate deny'd, In quite a different manner dy'd! Yet think not that their rancour's o'er, No! for 'tis ten to one, and more, Tho' quiet now as either lies, But they've a wrangle when they rise.

LONGEVITY

In St. Michael's churchyard, at Litchfield, an ancient tombstone was lately discovered, which had been buried in the earth a great number of years. Upon it are deeply cut the following inscriptions:—

Here lyes the Body

of William Clarke,

who was Clarke of this

Church 51 years, and buried

March 25th, 1525, aged 96

Here lyes the Body

of William Clarke,

Clarke of this Church 71

years, who died Septem. 26,

1562, and aged 86

The father lived in the reigns of six different kings, viz. Henry the Sixth, Edwards the Fourth and Fifth, Richard the Third, and Henry the Seventh and Eighth. The son in seven reigns, viz. from Edward the Fourth to Mary the First.

Morning Chronicle, October 8, 1822

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Written by a ragged Irishman, a passenger on board a vessel with the Archbishop of Tuam

If each man had his suum, You would not have Tuam, But I should get meum, And sing a Te Deum.

G.K

MAY

The following verses were composed by John Barbour, a poet and divine, who was born at Aberdeen in 1330. They afford a specimen of the poetry in his time:—

"This was in midst of month of May, When birdis sing on ilka spray, Melland5 their notes, with seemly soun, For softness of the sweet seasoun. "And leavis of the branchis spreeds, And blomis bright, beside them, breeds And Fieldis strawed are with flow'rs Well savouring of seir6 colours; And all things wor this, blyth, and gay."

P.T.W

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Holinshed.

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Alba, the city of Romulus, the founder of Rome, was called so from a white sow found there by Æneas.—Vide Livy, lib. i

Cum tibi sollicito secreti ad fluminis undam Litoreis ingens inventa sub illicibus sus, Triginta capitum foetus enixa jacebit, Alba, solo recubans, albi circum ubera nati: Is locus urbis erit ei.

Virgil Æneid, lib. iii. v. 390.

When, in the shady shelter of a wood And near the margin of a gentle flood, Thou shalt behold a sow upon the ground, With thirty sucking young encompassed round; The dam and offspring white as falling snow: These on thy city shall their name bestow, &c.

DRYDEN.

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"Rhodoginus mentions a parrot which could recite correctly the whole of the Apostle's Creed."—Animal Biography, by the Rev. W. Bingley.

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"The Dutch," says Le Vaillant, "give this bird the name of Secretary, on account of the bunch of quills behind its head."—Bingley, Animal Biography.

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Mingling.

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Upon two religious disputants who are interred within a few paces of each other

LONGEVITY

Here lyes the Body

of William Clarke,

who was Clarke of this

Church 51 years, and buried

March 25th, 1525, aged 96

Here lyes the Body

of William Clarke,

Clarke of this Church 71

years, who died Septem. 26,

1562, and aged 86

Morning Chronicle, October 8, 1822

LINES

Written by a ragged Irishman, a passenger on board a vessel with the Archbishop of Tuam

G.K

MAY

P.T.W

POPULAR SCIENCE

This Day is published, price 5s

ARCANA of SCIENCE, and ANNUAL REGISTER of the USEFUL ARTS for 1831

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