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John Lee is dead, that good old man,
We ne'er shall see him more;

He used to wear an old drab coat,

All buttoned down before.

An inscription in Matherne churchyard, "To the Memory of John Lee of this Parish, who died May 21st, 1823, aged 103 years."1

Old Abram Brown is dead and gone,
You'll never see him more;

He used to wear a long brown coat
That buttoned down before.

Halliwell's Nursery Rhymes of England, p. 60.

Old Grimes is dead, that good old man
We ne'er shall see him more:

He used to wear a long black coat,

All buttoned down before.

Albert G. Greene, Old Grimes (Mr. Greene acknowl

edged taking this from some old ballad.)

What we gave, we have;

What we spent, we had;

What we left, we lost.

Epitaph of Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devonshire. From Cleaveland's Genealogical History of the Family of Courtenay, p. 142.

When Adam dolve, and Eve span,

Who was then the gentleman?

Lines used by John Ball, to encourage the Rebels in Wat Tyler's Rebellion. Hume's History of Eng land. Vol. i. Ch. 17, Note 8.

1 For this I am indebted to the curate of Matherne.ED.

Now bething the, gentilman,

How Adam dalf and Eve span.

From a MS. of the 15th Century in the British
Museum. Songs and Carols.

The same proverb existed in German. Agricola (Prov. No. 254).

So Adam reutte, und Eva span;

Wer was da ein eddelman?

For angling-rod, he took a sturdy oak;
For line a cable, that in storm ne'er broke;

His hook was baited with a dragon's tail,
And then on rock he stood to bob for whale.
From The Mock Romance, a rhapsody attached to The
Loves of Hero and Leander, published in London in
the years 1653 and 1677. Chambers's Book of Days.
Vol. i. p. 173.

In Chalmers's British Poets the following is ascribed to William King (1663–1712).

His angle-rod made of a sturdy oak;

His line a cable which in storms ne'er broke ;
His hook he baited with a dragon's tail,
And sat upon a rock, and bobbed for whale.
Upon a Giant's Angling.

Count that day lost whose low descending sun
Views from thy hand no worthy action done.
From Staniford's Art of Reading. Third Edition,
p. 27. Boston, 1803.

In the Preface to Mr. Nichol's work on Autographs, among other albums noticed by him as being in the British Museum is that of David Krieg, with Jacob Bobart's autograph, and the following verses.

"Virtus sua gloria."

Think that day lost whose [low] descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done. Bobart died about 1726. He was a son of the celebrated botanist of that name.

From The Letters of Junius.

I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter.

Letter xii. To the Duke of Grafton.

The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.

Letter xxxvii. City Address and the King's Answer.

Private credit is wealth, public honour is security; the feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.

Letter xlii. Affair of the Falkland Islands.

OLD TESTAMENT.

It is not good that the man should be alone. Genesis ii. 18.

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. . . . . For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

The mother of all living.

Am I my brother's keeper?

Gen. iii. 19.

Gen. iii. 20.

Gen. iv. 9.

My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Gen. iv. 13.

There were giants in the earth in those days.

Gen. vi. 4.

The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot. Gen. viii. 9.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

In a good old age.

Gen. ix. 6.

Gen. xv. 15.

His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.

Gen. xvi. 12.

Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the

grave.

Gen. xlii. 38.

Genesis xlix. 4.

Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.

I have been a stranger in a strange land.

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The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire.

When we sat by the fleshpots.

Man doth not live by bread only.

Ex. xiii. 21.

Ex. xvi. 3.

The wife of thy bosom.

Deuteronomy viii. 3.

Deut. xiii. 6.

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand,

foot for foot.

Deut. xix. 21.

Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. Deut. xxviii. 5.

The secret things belong unto the Lord our

God.

He kept him as the apple of his eye.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be.

Deut. xxix. 29.

Deut. xxxii. 10.

Deut. xxxiii. 25.

I am going the way of all the earth.

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