and debauchery, or at best is but comparatively ill-spent.

_All things by Comparison._--Aristippus being reprehended of luxury
by one that was not rich, for that he gave six crowns for a small fish,
answered, "Why, what would you have, given?" The other said, "Some
twelve pence." Aristippus said again, "And six crowns is no more with
me."

P.T.W.

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_Epitaphs._--At Castle Camps, in Cambridgeshire, is the following
quaint epitaph on a former rector--

Mors mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset,
Aeternae Vitae Janua clausa foret.


The translation is obviously, "unless the Death of Death (Christ) had
given death to Death by his own death, the gate of eternal life had been
closed." A poetic specimen of declension!

At Babraham, in Cambridgeshire, is this on Orazio Palovicini, who was
the last deputed to this country to collect the Peter-pence; but instead
of returning to Rome, he divided the spoil with the Queen, and bought
the estate at Babraham.--

Here lies Orazio Pulovicin,