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Of all her gifts her wisdom pleaseth most, “found i in ‘the hole of the! heart of thesame 
Of all her graces, virtue she doth boast ; horse, a strange worm, which lay on a 
For all the gifts my love aad joy is lost, ~ round heap ia “eal: ar skinn, of the | 
if Rosalinde prove cruel and unkind. » . likeness of'a toad, which boing taken out”, 
CURIOUS EXTRACT FROM STOW... ce wand spread abroad,” was in_ form and 
Although human credulity 18 very fashion not easie to be described; the 
liable to imposition, and a distempered: }, h of which worm, divided into many 
imagination ever on the wing for ‘tales gras es, to the ‘umber of fifty, (spread 
of wonder,’ ” yet circumstances of a. most pv the body like the branches of a 
improbable nature do sometimes occur, — tree) was, from ‘the snout to the end of 
stamped with such tnarks of authenti- the. longest grain, seventeen inches, 
city, as the most sceptical must give | having four issues in the graines, from 
credence to. Such [conceive to whence dropped forth a red water; the 
be the following singular account, body in ‘bigness round was. ‘about three 
copied verbatim from “Stow 4 se inches and a halfe, the coloure whereof 
seventeene af March, {1586,) . was very like to a rhackarell.. This mone 
strange thing happened: master Dia: strous worm, found in manner ‘aforesaid, 
ton, of Spaldwickt, in. the county of crawling to have got away, was stabbed 
Huntingdon, esquire, one of her ma- jy with a dagger and died, Wikeh after | 
jesties gentleman pentioners, had a horse being dried, was shewed to many honour } 
which died sodainly, and being repped to able | persons of the realme, » i 
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ORIGINAL POETRY. 
ADVICE TO THE M—p B——p. So shall impartial Fame award thy soul’s 
PREVIOUSLY TO THE SECOND EDITION » delight, 
OF HIS POETICAL WORKS, _ With Burns and Bloomfield rank thee in the 
. . . . Celian height 
€¢ Lintot (dull rogue) will think yo ce NE Ce 
Binh. i Fe bi: er Newea:tle-under- Lyne, Scio. 
Unless you well revise ’em and retouch.” he TS SOS ir oesaran Meee 
‘ pote _ ‘THE-BROKEN REED. 
ESIDE the sedgy banks of Can, 
A musing, moralizing than, 
At eve I ome aes stray 5 
There mark the rippling water glide, _ 
A clear, uninterrupted tide, 
Along its winding way. 
WILD on the waste ar Time oy verses 
roll, 
By scornful tempests burl’ ‘ito contral ; 
Doubtless they perish, genius will not save 
Her spurious offspring, from th’ oblivious 
grave 3 | 
Would Fate to incense -pour’d | before, her Atsuch a time, in such a mood, 
shrine, - As bending o’er its brink I stood, — 
Yield wp those records, this advice were | “0 object caught my view ; 
_ mine; sth eee A reed it was, whose slender stem 
r interesting tales ; ve - Obey'd the impulse of the stream ; 
wey 
Tear from each cold. 
stos veil; The stream in which it grew. it 
_ Parental fondness, th 
Kindle the critic r diead, its fire, cl daa! taper neck and downy crest, : oe 
Though favorite e blaze expire; , Nos rising from the river’s breast, i 
Linge thei y fla texture may In all the pomp of pride ; i 
| consumie, Now sinking as the water swell’d: \ 
| Dead expletives in ite a flag 8 | ‘Next moment not to be beheld, i 
ee pee tlee cle ste Disporting in the tide; | 
BF 300 Drew from my cogitative mind i 
Conclusiovs of a different kind ‘ 
Tathose experience taught; ; 
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x ; hink king it secure, I err’'d; 
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pS, a : ut sdo a circumstance occurr’d | 
J These s He. i tne be “ctified the thought. f 
» Will A e wind, both rough and nide, 
. pow’s 5 i ms v E. Came whistling from a. neighbouring wood, { 
an But think not. “And louder, stronger blew ; i 
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_ Nor foist for hi ; ill, rushing with resistless force, ee 
» Force is not fus ; t cross’d the river in its course 3s 
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Pazsion not pathe ee And snapt the reed ia two! i 
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