THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



NATURAL HISTORY. 



MARCH, 1830. 



Art. I. Some Account of the Life, Genius, and Personal Habits 

 of the late Thomas Bewick, the celebrated Artist and Engraver on 

 Wood, By his Friend John F. M. Dovaston, Esq. KM.,, of 

 Westfelton, near Shrewsbury. 



(Concluded from p. 9.) 



** Swote hys tyngue as the throstle's note, 



Quycke ynn daunce as thoughte canne bee, 

 Defte hys taboure, codgelle stote, 

 Oh ! hee lyes bie the wyllowe tree : 

 Mie love ys dedde, 

 Gone to hys deathe^bedde, 

 Alle vnderre the wyllow^ tree." Chatterton. 



Sir, 

 Before I conclude this familiar account of my friend Be- 

 wick, you must, in justice, allow me to inform the public, that 

 it was commenced, and (after its first portion) very consider- 

 ably lengthened, at your request. Yet still, under the con- 

 tinual fear of dilation, I reluctantly omit innumerable incidents 

 that are sparkling about the twilight of my memory, and 

 hurry on to my last interview with my esteemed friend. Early 

 in June, 1827, he wrote to me from Buxton, that, for the gout 

 in his stomach, he was hurried there by his medical friends, 

 accompanied by his daughters Jane and Isabella. At sunrise 

 I mounted the high-pacing Rosalind, and entered that naked 

 but neat little town early the second morning ; alighting at the 

 Eagle — fit sign to a visitor of the king of bird-engravers. 



In my haste to find his lodging, I passed it ; but stumping 

 behind, with his great cudgel, he seized me ardently by the 

 arm before I was aware, exclaiming, " I seed ye from tha 

 w^indow, and kenned yer back and gait, my kind friend." 

 I found him in very good lodgings facing the fountain-corner 



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