ll about the forty-fifth
year of his age, when upon some military services
ill-requited, and meeting at the same time with a
disappointment in the tenderest of passions, he abandoned
the sword and the sex together, and took sanctuary, not so
much in his convent as in himself. I feel a damp upon my
spirits, as I am going to add, that in my last return
through Calais, upon inquiring after Father Lorenzo, I heard
he had been dead near three months, and was buried, not in
his convent, but according to his desire, in a little
cemetery belonging to it about two leagues off. I had a
strong desire to see where they had laid him, when, upon
pulling out his little horn box, as I sat by his grave, and
plucking a nettle or two at the head of it, which had no
business to grow there, they all struck together so forcibly
upon my affections that I burst into a flood of tears--but I
am as weak as a woman; I beg the world not to smile, but
pity me."

Many pleasing effusions have been written promoted doubtless by a
sneeze among which the following on "A pinch of Snuff" from "The
Sportsman Magazine," exhibits the custom and the benefits ascribed to
its indulgence.

"With mind or body sore distrest,
Or with repeated cares opprest,
What sets the aching heart at rest?
A pinch of snuff!

"Or should some sharp and gnawing pain
Creep round the noddle of the brain,
What puts all things to rights again?
A pinch of snuff!

"When speech and tongue together fail,
What helps old ladies in their tale,
And adds fresh canvass to their sail?
A pinch of snuff!

"Or when some drowsy parson prays,
And still more drowsy people gaze,
What opes their eyelids with amaze?
A pinch of snuff!

"A comfort which they can't forsake,
What is it some would rather take,
Than good roast beef, or rich plum cake?
A pinch of snuff!

"Should two old gossips chance to sit,
And sip their slop, and talk of it,
What gives a sharpness to their wit?
A pinch of snuff!

"What introduces Whig or Tory,
And reconciles them in their story,
When each is boasting in his glory?
A pinch of snuff!

"What warm