onor of
_meeting again_."

LXV.--A LATE EDITION.

IT was with as much delicacy as satire that Porson returned, with the
manuscript of a friend, the answer, "That it would be read when Homer
and Virgil were forgotten, _but not till then_."

LXVI.--VERSES WRITTEN ON A WINDOW IN THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND.

SCOTLAND! thy weather's like a modish wife,
Thy winds and rains for ever are at strife;
So termagant awhile her thunder tries,
And when she can no longer scold, she cries.

LXVII.--THREE TOUCHSTONES.

AN ancient sage uttered the following apothegm:--"The goodness of gold
is tried by fire, the goodness of women by gold, and the goodness of men
by the ordeal of women."

LXVIII.--A DIALOGUE.

_Pope._

SINCE my old friend is grown so great,
As to be minister of state,
I'm told (but 'tis not true I hope)
That Craggs will be ashamed of Pope.

_Craggs._

ALAS! if I am such a creature,
To grow the worse for growing greater,
Why, faith, in spite of all my brags,
'Tis Pope must be ashamed of Craggs.

LXIX.--BEAR AND VAN.

THE facetious Mr. Bearcroft told his friend Mr. Vansittart, "Your name
is such a long one, I shall drop the _sittart_, and call you _Van_ for
the future."--"With all my heart," said he: "by the same rule, I shall
drop _croft_, and call you _Bear_!"

LXX.--EPITAPH FOR SIR JOHN VANBRUGH.

LIE heavy on him, Earth! for he
Laid many heavy loads on thee!

LXXI.--PROVING THEIR METAL.

WHEN the Prince of Orange, afterwards William the Third, came over to
this country, five of the seven bishops who were sent to the Tower
declared for his highness; but the other two would not come into the
measures. Upon which Dryden said, that "the seven golden candlesticks
them proved _prince's metal_."

LXXII.--A DISTANT PROSPECT.

THROUGH an avenue of trees, at the back of Trinity College, a church may
be seen at a considerable distance, the approach to which affords no
very pleasing scenery. Porson, walking that way with a friend, and
observing the church, remarked, "That it put him in mind of a
_fellowship_, which was a long dreary walk, with a church _at the end of
it_."

LXXIII.--SOUND SLEEPER.

A MAN meeting his friend, said, "I spoke to you last night in a
dream."--"Pardon me," replied the other, "I did not _hear you_."

LXXIV.--A CHE