old English:

"Ano. Dni ... Mens. As.
1568 J.H.S. 23

"No hope is hard or vayne
That happ doth ous attayne."


And on the wall on the top of the Beauchamp Tower, are the following
lines on a Goldfinch:--

"Where Raleigh pined within a prison's gloom,
I chearful sung, nor murmur'd at my doom,
Where heroes bold and patriots firm could dwell,
A Goldfinch in Content his note might swell;
But death more gentle than the law's decree,
Hath paid my ransom from captivity.

"Buried June 23rd, 1794, by a fellow-prisoner
in the Tower of London."

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LORD THURLOW.

One day, when Lord Thurlow was very busy at his house in Great
Ormondstreet, a poor curate applied to him for a living then vacant,
"Don't trouble me," said the chancellor, turning from him with a