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feeling and the pious resignation which breathe in the con- 

 cluding stanzas of this poem, leave a powerful impression on 

 the mind; and whatever vicissitudes in life the Editor or hij 

 Readers may experience, he wishes for Himself and for 

 Them, the same philosophic and christian composure, on a 

 retrospect of the past, and the anticipated view of futurity." 



Of Mr. War ton's remarks on Tusser, Mr. Mayor thus partly 

 speaks: — "For the personal kindness ofWarton to me, at 

 an early period of life, I shall ever retain an affectionate 

 remembrance of him, and for his genius and high attainments 

 in literature, I feel all that deference and respect which can 

 belong to his most enthusiastic admirers; but no man was less 

 a judge of the merits of a book on Husbandry and Huswifry." 



Mr. Warton observes, that " Tusser's general precepts 

 have often an expressive brevity, and are sometimes pointed 

 with an epigrammatic turn, and smartness of allusion." 



In Tusser's poetical account of his own unsuccessful life, 



How through the briers my youthful years 

 Have run their race, — 



how he was forced from his father's house when a little boy, 

 and driven like a posting horse, being impressed to sing as 

 a chorister, at Wallingford College ; his miseries there, and 

 the stale bread they gave him; the fifty-three stripes the poor 

 lad received at Eton, when learning Latin; his happy transfer 

 to Trinity College, which to him seemed a removal from hell 

 to heaven ; the generosity of Lord Paget, 



Whose soul 1 trust is tvith the just; 



then his 



good parents ily'il 



One after one, till both were gone, 

 11 hose souls ni bliss, be long ere thin. 



