THE CLOWN'S REPLY. JOHN TROTT was desired by two witty peers, << An't please you, » quoth John, « I'm not given to letters, HERE lies poor NED PURDON, from misery freed, He led such a damnable life in this world, I don't think he'll wish to come back. This gentleman was educated at Trinity College, Dublin; but having wasted his patrimony, he enlisted as a foot-soldier. Growing tired of that employment, he obtained his discharge, and became a scribbler in the newspapers. He translated Voltaire's HENRIADE. AN ELEGY ON THE GLORY OF HER SEX, MRS MARY BLAIZE. GOOD people all, with one accord, The needy seldom pass'd her door, She strove the neighbourhood to please With manners wondrous winning; And never follow'd wicked ways,-Unless when she was sinning. Her love was sought, I do aver, But now her wealth and finery fled, The doctors found, when she was dead,- Let us lament, in sorrow sore, For Kent-street well may say, That had she lived a twelvemonth more, She had not died to-day. |