JORROCKS ON ^UNTING 



in 1796 ; and on the title-page is pasted a 

 hextract from a newspaper that would adorn 

 a monument. ' Monday, 8th March, 181 1, at 

 his seat, Stapleton, in Dorsetshire, Peter 

 Beckford, Esq., aged 70. Mr. Beckford was 

 a celebrated fox-'unter,and hauthor of "Letters 

 on 'unting." ' There's an inscription for a 

 marble monument ! ' Multum hi farvo,'' as 

 Pomponius Ego would say. Blow me tight ! 

 but I never looks at Billy Beckford supplicatin' 

 the king on his marble monument in Guildhall, 

 but I exclaims, ' Shake Billy from his pedestal 

 and set up Peter ! ' (Hisses and applause.) 



" I once wrote my epitaph, and it was werry 

 short, — 



' Hie jacet Jorrocks ' 



was all wot I said ; but the unlettered 'untsman, 

 or maybe M.F.H., might pass me by, jest as 

 he would a dead emperor. Far different 

 would it be should this note follow, — ' Mr. J. 

 was a celebrated fox-hunter, and lectorer upon 

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