No, landlord, no, you now may truly say,
That to your cost too, you have lost a Day:
Day is departed, in a mist I fear,

For Day is broke, yet does not Day appear.
From sun to sun are the set times to pay,
For you should have been up by break of Day;
But if you had, you'd have got nothing by't,
For Day was cunning and broke over night;
His fiery prancers made the welkin roar,
One horse for haste has left a shoe at door,
Whose gilded nails do with such lustre shine,
He that comes next, will have it for a sign:
His pale face now does Day in owl-light shrowd,
Truth is, at present, Day's under a cloud.
Day, like a candle, is gone out—and where ?
None knows, except to t'other hemisphere;
And yet, who trusted him for
Might have their money if the Day were come.
But Day is fled, and left our hopes in night,
Now cynic, now lanthorn, and candle light.
Then to the tavern let's away,

any sum,

Cheer up your hearts, hang't, 'tis a broken Day;
And for your rent never thus rend your soul,
Ere long you'll see Day at a little hole;
Look at the Compter when you go that way,
Early enough and you'll see peep of Day.
But how now landlord, what's the matter pray?
What, can't you sleep, do you so long for Day?
Have you a mind, sir, to arrest the Day ?
There's no such serjeant as a Joshua.

Put off your passions, true it is a sum,

But don't you know that a pay Day will come?
I'll warrant you, do but banish sorrow,

you

My life, for your's, Day comcs again to-morrow.

ANECDOTE OF BIAS.

When the city of Pria, the place of his nativity, was besieged, every one was eagerly employed in carrying off their most valuable effects.

As Bias was walking out of the city very composedly, and with empty hands, he was asked by his neighbours, why he neglected saving his effects?" I carry them about me," replied he, signifying thereby, that learning and virtue were the only real and valuable possessions.

It was his custom to say, that " of all the accidents of life, 'the change of fortune was the most difficult to be supported; and, that those who had always been unfortunate, 'were not the most wretched." -We may here add, with the wise men of Lesbos, that the most unhappy of all men is he who fancies himself such.

Among savage beasts, the most to be feared is a tyrant; amongst domestic, is a flatterer; hope is the poppy which lulls the afflicted mind to repose; but ambition is an enemy which keeps us perpetually on the watch.

Bias died suddenly while pleading the cause of his friend, about six hundred and eight years before the birth of Chrift.

ANECDOTE.

Many years since, towards the close of a certain enquiry in a great assembly, a near relation of the gentleman accused, waited upon one who was supposed to have had some share in conducting the prosecution, and putting a book into his hands, carefully sealed up, said, this, sir, is a scarce and valuable tract, that may probably throw some light on my relation's case: As a man of honour, you are expected to peruse it, and I will attend you this time to-morrow for your answer."

The next day's interview was short but to the purpose: "Tell your friend, sir, that

the solidity of his arguments, has convinced me of his rectitude and my own error in judgment." The unique impression consisted only of thirty pages; but each of them was decorated with a marginal bank note value £1000.

Epitaph of George Baker, Knight.

Here lies interred, George Baker, Knight, the father, (grandfather and great grandfather) of George Baker, Esq.; who, after he had done and suffered much for his king and country, in gallantly defending Newcastle against the rebellious Scots, at laft submitted to an unequal fate, unworthy of his great deserts, the 14th of August, 1567: But God would not suffer such great virtue to lie concealed, for though he died obscurely, he was buried honourably, the whole of the militia and froops attending his funeral, as a memorable example of loyalty and bravery.

At last, having lain buried unobserved more than forty years, his nephew, Thomas Baker, batchelor of divinity, of

St. John's college, Cambridge, the heir, not more of his virtues than his misfortunes, pittying the unhappy fate of his grandfather, out of his great affection, caused this funeral monument to be erected in the year 1710.

CURIOUS ANECDOTE.

A Paris correspondant gives us the following account of one of the most ingenious stratagems played off at any time, by the light-fingered gentlemen of that, or any kingdom.

The last time the Queen of France visited the theatre in Paris, the wife of a financier, wohse whole merit consisted in a heavy purse, and in an ostentatious display of eastern magnificence, set alone in a box opposite to that of her majesty. Bourjoice affected to make parade of a costly pair of bracelets, which, as the queen now and then cast her eyes upon her, she fondly supposed attracted the admiration of her sovereign. She was hugging herself in thoughts that exceedingly flattered her vanity, when a person, dressed

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