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The moral fcroll who next Aicceeds may reach.
And to his brains apply it, or his br h ;.
Thus Ihall your fingers find a juil excufe. And one fea chaplain boaft his works of ufe.
And as yourfeives from time to time repair. To drop the reliques of digellion there. Still may your pork an eaiy exit gain. Nor make you form one ugly face in vain. Still may your flip, refin'd to amber flow. In ftreams falubrious to the brine below; Nor ever in too hot a current hifs, But may all holes prove innocent like this : Thus grant my fuit, (as grant unhurt you may) Your chaplain then without your groats will pray. *
j^n Epitaph out of a Church yard in Dorfctjhire, anf-wered by a Gentleman on the If idonuer' s marrying again in a fortnight.
Epitaph. For me deceas'd weep not, mv dear, I am not dead, but fleepeth here : Your time will come, prepare to die; Wait but awhile, you'll follow I.
Jlnf-wer. I am not griev'd, my deareft life ; Sleep on — I've got another wife : And therefore cannot come to thee. For I muft go to bed to ihe.
A Gentleman has caufed a marble to be ereBed in St, Annes church -yard, IP'eftminJlerifor the late King Theodore, Baron ISeuhoff, ivith the folksy- ing injcription.
Near this place is interred
Theodore, King of L'orfica,
Who died in this parilh Dec. 1 1, 1756,
Immediately after leaving
The King's B^nch prilon.
By the benefit of the late act of Infolvency :
In confequence of which
He regillered his kingdom of Corfica
For the ul'e of his creditors.
The grave, great teacher, to a level brings Heroe? and beggars, galley-flaves and kings j That Theodore this moral learn'd, ere dead. Fate pour"d its leflbns on his living head, Eeftow'd a kingdom, and deny'd him bread.
- Every common Teaman pays a groat a month out of his pay to the chaplr.in,
but the lieutenants pay nothing.
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