rowble, and that he
and his successours alway with batayle and swerdes sholde be
punysshyd."

[7] This book was printed at St. Albans in the year 1486, and
afterwards reprinted by Wynkyn de Worde, in 1496.

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BATHOS AND PATHOS.

(_To the Editor._)

Perceiving that you sometimes admit curious and eccentric epitaphs
into your very amusing and instructive periodical, if the enclosed is
worthy a place, it at least has this merit, if no other, that it is a
_literal_ copy, from a tombstone in St. Edmund's churchyard, Sarum:--

_In Memory of 3 Children of Joseph and Arabella Maton, who all died in
their Infancy, 1770._

1.

Innocence Embellishes Divinely Compleat
To Prescience Coegent Now Sublimely Great
In the Benign, Perfecting, Vivifying State.

2.

So Heavenly Guardian Occupy the Skies
The Pre-Existent God, Omnipotent Allwise
He can Surpassingly Immortalize thy Theme
And Permanent thy Soul Celestial Supreme.

3.

When Gracious Refulgence, bids the Grave Resign
The Creators Nursing Protection be Thine
Thus each Perspiring AEther will Joyfully Rise
Transcendantly Good Supereminently Wise.

W.C.

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THE LETTER B.

"Or like a lamb, whose dam away is fet,
He treble _baas_ for help, but none can get."
SIDNEY.

Its pronunciation is supposed to resemble the bleating of a sheep;
upon which account the Egyptians represented the sound of this letter
by the figure of that animal. It is also one of those letters which
the eastern grammarians call _labial_, because the principal organs
employed in its pronunciation are the lips. With the ancients, B as a
numeral stood for 300. When a line was drawn above it, it stood for
3,000, and with a kind of accent below it, for 200.

P.T.W.

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A DOUBLE.

(_To the Editor._)

I read your story of the cherry-coloured cat. The clergyman with whom
I was educated astonished me when a child, by saying, when at his
living at ----, he preached in a cherry-coloured gown and a
_rose_-coloured wig (white.)

AN OLD ONE.

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PROPHECY OF LORD BYRON.

In his journal, under the date of January 13, 1821, Lord Byron writes:
"Dined--news come--the powers mean to war with the people. The
intelligence seems positive--let it be so--th