No matter then the name o' th' place, In fearch o' th' truth to either town to ride; The ftory's good, let that fuffice; You need not be fo over-nice, I fwear the actors are not much belied. A prifoner long in durance vile, Had lain for ftealing old 'Squire Quorum's brogues & As any in those parts you 'd fee, Anon the day of trial comes, The Worshipfuls were on their bums, But he, poor wretch, had nought to say, Now 't is much doubted in this nation, The brogues were new, fo was the crime, Had ere within the town detected been: Not e'en a fmile throughout the group was feen. Now Now closely fhut within their room, Some thought 't was wilful murder quite, And now the foreman's brows unbend, A THE GREEN MAN EXHIBITED IN VERSE. [From the fame] SPRUCE little man, in a doublet of green, Green ftripe is his waistcoat, his fmall-clothes are green, Green watch-ftrings, green feals, and for certain I've heard, (Though they're powder'd,) green whiskers, and eke a green beard! Green garters, green hofe, and deny it who can, Quiz. LINES, AFTER THE MANNER OF DARWIN. [From the fame.] CHLORANDRIA LEUCOCEPHALA. This lately difcovered plant is neither useful nor ornamental, but merely noticed for its fingularity. CHEE HEER'D by the warmth of beauty's radiant fmile, The fea-girt fhores, where balmy breezes fan, Chlorandria blooms-a vegetable man. If dark December opes the Christmas hoard, Nor fcorch'd by funs, nor chill'd by winter's fnow; Thus where Brighthelmfton dabbling crowds invites Green Green in the air his filken kerchiefs float, His head on high no favoury turkey rears, Long near our fhores may this exotic bloom, CASIMIR: ANECDOTES AND BON MOTS. The wrong Regiment. WHEN a foldier fell into the Thames and was drowned, a person asked another to what regiment the poor fellow belonged, and was anfwered, "The Life Guards."-" Nay, my good Sir," faid the Inquirer," I think you must be mistaken; for he is certainly in the Cold Stream." Anecdote of Lord Vernon.-LORD Vernon had formerly a domestic of the name of Thomas, who having ferved his Lordship faithfully for a long time, had accumulated money enough to enable him to take a public-house in Pentonville (the fame which is now occupied by his widow). The refpect that he felt for his cidevant mafter prompted him to fet up the fign of the Vernon Arms. A few months afterwards, as Lord Vernon was ་་ was accidentally riding paft, his attention was attracted by the unexpected appearance of his arms; and seeing the name of Thomas underneath, his Lordship stopped his horse, and calling for the landlord, asked him how he dared make ufe of his arms without permiffion. "An't please you, my Lord," replied mine hoft, "I thought I had a kind of right to do fo, as your Lordfhip for fo many years made use of my arms." The readiness of this anfwer pleafed his Lordship fo much, that he ever after patronised Thomas, and after his death interested himself with great benevolence in be half of his widow and children. A FELLOW having been adjudged for perjury to lose his ears, when Ketch came to put the law in force, he found the culprit already cropped; Jack feemed furprised- "What," faid the criminal, with the greatest fang froid, " am I obliged to furnish you with ears every time you are pleased to crop me?" JACK KETCH, being fummoned to the Court of Confcience for a finall debt, was asked how he meant to pay it? The answer was, "Why, an please your honour, as I know the plaintiff and his family well, I'll work it out for him in my own line.”" WHEN the late Robert Lord Clive was a boy, and once walking with a schoolfellow through Drayton market, the two lads ftopped to look at a butcher killing a calf. "Dear me, Bobby," fays the lad, "I would not be a butcher for all the world."-" Why, I fhould not much like it," faid Clive; "it's a dirty beggarly bufinefs; but I'd a plaguey deal rather be a butcher than a calf !" Singular Recommendation.-A SAILOR meeting one day with a negro, who had a remarkably fmall pig under his arm, afked him the price of it, "Half-aVOLX. guinea, L |