Notes and Queries, Number 57, November 30, 1850 by Various
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Upon the trial mention was made of the paper stuck up against the walls of the King's Bench Prison, from which it appears that it contained the following: "Let * * * Judges, Ministers combine, And here great Wilkes and Liberty confine. Yet in each English heart secure their fame is In spite of crowded levies at St. J----'s. Then while in prison Envy dooms their stay, Here grateful Britons daily homage pay." The inscription upon the tomb of William Allen was visible in 1817, and in addition to the inscription on the north side, which has already been printed in "NOTES AND QUERIES" (Vol. ii., p. 333), was as follows:-- _South Side._ "O disembody'd soul! most rudely driven From this low orb (our sinful seat) to Heaven, While filial piety can please the ear, Thy name will still occur for ever dear: This very spot now humaniz'd shall crave From all a tear of pity on thy grave. O flow'r of flow'rs! which we shall see no more, No kind returning Spring can thee restore, Thy loss thy hapless countrymen deplore. _East Side._ |
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