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XXXITI=MR» GILBERT WAKE=- 
FIELD. 
The late learned. Mr. Gilbert Wake- 
field, formerly Fellow of Jefus College, 
being once afked his opinion of the poetry 
of Mr. Pye, the Latreat, replied, that he 
had read fome of Mr. Pyé’s Poems, of 
which he thought very handfomely. But 
being ftill further urged to give his opi- 
nion of an Ode that had juft appeared in 
the public prints, he defired a friend to 
read it to him. ‘The Introduétion con- 
tained fomething about the finging of 
birds: Wakefieldabruptly ftopt his friend, 
and gave his opinion as follows, in ajlufion 
to the Poet-Laureat’s name: 
And when the Pye was opened, 
, The Birds began to fing: 
And was not this a dainty difh, 
To fet before the King? 
XXXIV.—BENE’T COLLEGE, 
- Bene't College feems to have produced 
a greater number of prelates, and a greater 
nuniber of confeffors for Puritanifm, in 
proportion to its fize, than any other col- 
lege at Cambridge. Archbifhops Parker, 
Sterne, and Tenifon; bifhops Ilgon, 
Fletcher, Gunning, Greene, Bradford, 
Mawilon, Sydal, Goodryke, Goodrich, or 
Gootheric, Womack, and the prefent Bi- 
fhop Yorke, were all of Bene’t College. 
On the other hand, fome of the mafters 
were Puritans. Mr: Rebert Browne, who 
gave denomination to the Brownifts, was, 
according to fome, educated at Bene’t. 
One of the Fellows, Francis Kett, A. M. 
futfered death for Puritanifm, in the Cattle 
Ditches at Norwich; and Mr. Henry Bar- 
xyow, and Mr. John Greenwood, both of 
this College, after enduring hunger, cold, 
and nakednefs in prifon, were executed at 
Tyburn. Barrow was a man of fome ta- 
Jents and learning, author of a book, inti- 
tled, The Hiftory of Falfe Churches, and 
other treatifes. Of this College alfo was 
sirthur Afbley Sykes, author of many 
theological works of character, but no 
hearty friend to the prefent ecclefiaftical 
efablifhment, at leaft not of the Corpora- 
tien and Teft Aéts. 
XXV.—=-GARRICK. 
A late Fellow of Peter-Houfe was un- 
happily deranged: in his iarelleéts. The 
rollowing lines, written by him, have been 
jultly admired, and afford proof, that he 
was not deftitute of genius. 
The town has found out diffrent ways, 
To praife its diff’rent Lears : 
To Barty it gives'loud applaufe, 
To Garrick only tears, 
“the eficcts of ‘hunger and cold. ° 
Singular Account of Longevity in Three Horjes. {March 1, 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, : 
I REQUEST a place, Sir,in your Ma- 
HK. gazine, for a fingular account of Jon- 
gevity in three horfes, the preperty of Ed- 
ward Brown, efq. of Dulwich, a gentle- 
man whom I have known many years. 
Their names were Jack, Peacock, and 
Mungo ; and their ages, taken together - 
at the completion or each, made a tctal 
of one hundred and fifteen years. ‘The 
two former drew the chariot, the firftdying 
at the age of thirty-fx, the fecond at that 
of thirty-four years. Mungo, the furvi- 
vor, a poney, which was accuftomed to 
draw the water-cart, and to do yarious 
ufeful drudgery to the laft, finifhed his 
part of the drama ina ftyle of much eafe 
and comfort on the 2d of Scptember, 
1794, aged forty-five years. Mr. Brown 
has a portrait of the laft, executed in a 
very good ftyle by a gentleman aruft. 
The three ancient and faithful fervants he 
buried in feparate ficlds, each field being 
called after the name of the horfe there 
buried, and each grave ornamented with 
a young plantation. A century. hence 
the proprietor of ‘thefe fields, poflefiing 
the volumes of the Monthly Magazine,may 
witnefs thefe monuments of. Mr. Brown’s 
humanity to animals, and learn todo fo 
likewife. 
As a contraft to the above, but from 
which alfo fome information needful to- 
ward compafiion may be derived: An 
opulent citizen,within Mr. Brown's know- 
ledge, fome years fince had a horfe, an 
old and faithful fervant, verging towards 
his thirtieth year ; fatisfied with the long 
fervices of this animal, the gentleman 
humanely defired to provide comfortably 
for the remainder of his life, but was not 
fortunate, or fufficiently difcriminate, in 
the means he chofe. “The horfe was com- 
mitted to a farmer, whofe land bordered 
on an extenfive common, which was af- 
fizned to the animal as his conftant quar- 
ters. In the warm feafon, and during 
the luxuriance of grafs, the veteran fared 
well, and found iufficient leifure to roll 
at his eafe, after the labour of colleéting 
his food : but winter brought a fad reverfe, 
and the poor aged animal, alike incapa- 
ble of fuitaining the rigours of the fea- 
fon, or the continued toil of fubfifting him- 
felf with fcanty morfels of withered her- 
bage, perifhed miferably in a ditch, from 
The 
neighbouring inhabitants daily witnefled 
this ipeétacle of animal wretchednelsy 
dying by inches, during feven weeks. — 
_ There. 
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