Thy Christian pilgrimage, for truth and prayer
Alone enabled thee some grief to bear.
Left in old age, without a husband's aid,
Thy wife shall pray beside thee to be laid :
For more than a kind father didst thou prove,
To fourteen children of her faithful love.
May future fathers of the village trace

The same sure path to the same resting place:
And future sons, taught in their youth to save,
Learn that first lesson from a poor man's grave!"

**

On a man of the name of FISH :

"Worms bait for fish; but here's a sudden change, FISH's bait for worms-is not that passing strange."

WELLS, the master of the celebrated Bear Gardens at Hockley-in-the-Hole, succeeded Christopher Preston, as master. Preston had taught his bears almost every thing but forgiveness of injuries; so one day they attacked, overthrew, killed, and almost devoured this sovereign of the bears, before his friends could fly to his aid: this was in 1709. It was upon WELLS's successor as sovereign of Hockley-in-the-Hole, that the following epitaph was made :—

"Shed, O ye combatants, a flood of tears;

Howl all ye dogs; roar all ye bulls and bears,
Ye butchers weep; for ye, no doubt are grievers,
And sound his loss with marrow-bones and cleavers.
WELLS is no more! yet death has been so kind
That he hath left the bulls and bears behind."

Inscribed on the tomb of THOMAS ABBOTT HAMILTON, who died in 1788, in the churchyard of Newport-Pagnell, Bucks (by Wm. Cowper):

* From £100 left him by his father when a lad, he saved £400.

"Pause here, and think; a monitory rhyme Demands one moment of thy fleeting time.

Consult life's silent clock, thy bounding vein;
Seems it to say-'Health here has long to reign?
Hast thou the vigour of thy youth? an eye
That beams delight? a heart untaught to sigh?
Yet fear. Youth, oftimes healthful and at ease,
Anticipates a day it never sees;

And many a tomb, like Hamilton's, aloud
Exclaims, 'Prepare thee for an early shroud.'

On Mr. CHESTER, of Chichely (by Wm. Cowper):"Tears flow, and cease not, where the good man lies, Till all who knew him follow to the skies.

Tears therefore fall where CHESTER's ashes sleep; Him, wife, friends, brothers, children, servants weep, And justly-few shall ever him transcend

As husband, parent, brother, master, friend."

In Easton churchyard, Suffolk :—

"WILLIAM COTTON,
of this Parish,

Who was the last Male branch
of an old and respectable family
In this County.

He died on the 21st of Jan. 1821,
In the 76th year of his age.

In adverse hour he show'd a Christian mind
To Man forgiving, and to God resigned.
Exempt himself from malice, fraud and strife,
More sinn'd against than sinning was his life.
His soul a treasure fit for heavenly weal,

Where moth nor rust corrupt, nor thieves break thro' and steal."

In Bremhill churchyard, on an old church-going parishioner (by Rev. W. L. Bowles) :

"Reader, this heap of earth-this grave-stone mark,
Here lie the last remains of poor JOHN DARK!
Five years beyond man's age he liv'd, and trod
This path each sabbath to the House of God.
From youth to age-nor ever from his heart,
Did that best prayer our Saviour taught depart.
At his last hour with lifted hands he cried,

"Thy Kingdom come-thy will be done,' and died."

"With deepest thoughts, spectator view thy fate, Thus mortals pass to an immortal state."

In Wingfield churchyard, Suffolk :-
"Blame not the monumental stone we raise;
'Tis to the Saviour's, not the sinner's praise;
Sin was the whole that she could call her own,
Her good was all deriv'd from Him alone:
To sin, her conflicts, pains and griefs she owed,
Her conquering faith and patience He bestowed.
Reader! may'st thou obtain like precious faith
To smile in anguish, and rejoice in death."

By Kirke White :

"Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear

That mourns thy exit from a world like this: Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stay'd thy progress to the seat of bliss.

No more confin'd to grov'ling scenes of night,
No more a tenant pent in mortal clay :
Now should we rather hail thy glorious flight
And trace thy journey to the realms of day."

In Peterborough Cathedral graveyard :—

"In memory of ROBERT STEVENS,

who died May 31, 1795, aged 34. "Youth Builds for Age-Age Builds for Rest, They who Build for Heaven Build Best."

In Darley churchyard, Derbyshire :

"In memory of JOHN SOMERSET, who died June, 1841, aged 60.

Encomium of the dead is mockery; the last great day alone will wipe all colouring off, and shew each man in his real character."

For a country Schoolmistress :

"Here lies a dame whom fate ordained
By certain requisites unnamed,

To instruct her generation.

'Twas hers to give the rustic youth,
By methods rigid and uncouth,
The village education.

Her plans to ancient plans allied,

To gain this end she harshly plied,
(So stubborn was the soil)

Hard blows and threats, and raving loud
To awe the young rebellious crowd,
And aid tuition's toil.

Now all her puny passion o'er,
No longer she locks up the door,
To keep her scholars in,

For she within this dungeon drear,
Shall sleep through many a distant year,
Nor ever storm again.

No flattering marble marks this spot,
To insinuate her future lot,

Or tell her age and name.

Yet if no tombstone tells her tale,
Our own remembrance ne'er shall fail,
To her 'tis all the same."

Vault of Sir JOHN STRANGE, master of the rolls, in Leyton churchyard, near London. This vault though of great dimensions, is plain in its architecture, and surrounded by palisades which enclose a large extent of ground. The inscription is as follows:

"In this Vault lie the Remains of the Right Honble. Sir JOHN STRANGE, The Master of the Rolls, and one of his Majesty's most Honble. Privy Council, who by great natural abilities, assisted by an unwearied application to the Profession of the Law, arrived at such eminence, that on the 9th of Feb. 1735, he was appointed one of his Majesty's Council learned in the Law, and on the 28th of Jan. 1736, Solicitor General; whilst in that Honourable Office under the Crown, He was so highly esteemed by the Citizens of his native City that at their request he became Recorder of London on the 13th of Nov., 1739.

On his Resignation of these employments in the year 1742, His Majesty, as a peculiar mark of his Regard, honoured him with a Patent to take place for life next to his Attorney General, and on the 11th of January, 1749, was pleased to advance him to the high and important Office of Master of the Rolls; the Revenue of which, soon after his promotion, received from Parliament, unsought by him, a very considerable and equally Honourable Augmentation. By a faithful Discharge of the different Stations which he so ably and worthily filled, he conciliated to him the Favour of his Sovereign, and the Esteem of his country; the true Summit of honourable and laudable Ambition!-Such was his Public Life.

Great and amiable were the Virtues of his Private and Domestic character, which will ever endear the remembrance of Him to the Hearts of all who knew him, and to those who had not that happiness, suffice it to say, that by a serious and constant performance of every Religious Duty, He was an inviting Example of