THE GATHERER.
Reading edition
"A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles."
SHAKSPEARE.
REPLY TO THE DIRGE ON MISS ELLEN GEE, OF KEW.
(See Mirror, page 223.)
Forgive, ye beauteous maids of Q, The much relenting B, Who vows he never will sting U, While sipping of your T. One nymph I wounded in the I, The charming L N G, The fates impell'd, I know not Y, The luckless busy B. And oh recall the sentence U Pass'd on your humble B, Let me remain at happy Q, Send me not o'er the C. And I will mourn upon A U, The death of L N G, And all the charming maids of Q Will pity the poor B. I will hum soft her L E G, The reason some ask Y, Because the maiden could not C, By me she lost her I. To soothe ye damsels I'll S A, Far sooner would I B Myself in funeral R A, Than wound one fair at T.
F.H.
THE BITER BIT.
In the reign of Charles II. a physician to the court was walking with the king in the gallery of Windsor Castle, when they saw a man repairing a clock fixed there. The physician knowing the king's relish for a joke, accosted the man with, "My good friend, you are continually doctoring that clock, and yet it never goes well. Now if I were to treat my patients in such a way, I should lose all my credit. What can the reason be that you mistake so egregiously?" The man dryly replied, "The reason why you and I, Sir, are not upon a par is plain enough—the sun discovers all my blunders, but the earth covers yours."
G.I.F.
EPITAPH.
On a tablet in the outside wall of the old church, at Taunton, in Somersetshire, is the following on "James Waters, late of London, aged 49."
Death traversing the western road, And asking where true merit lay, Made in this town a short abode, Then took this worthy man away.
W.R.
LIFE.
Grass of levity, Span in brevity, Flower's felicity, Fire of misery, Wind's stability Is mortality.
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