Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 by Various
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That establishment will avoid to all the travellers, visitors, of that
sepult city, and to the artists, (willing draw the antiquities) a great disorder, occasioned by the tardy and expensive contour of the iron-whay. People will find equally thither, a complete sortment of stranger wines, and of the kingdom, hot and cold baths, stables and coach houses, the whole with very moderated prices. Now, all the applications and endeavours of the hoste, will tend always to correspond to the tastes and desires, of their customers, which will acquire without doubt, to him, in to that town, the reputation whome, he is ambitious." The above is a literal copy of a card in the possession of a friend of mine, who visited Pompeii, 1847. W.L. _Epitaph._--While engaged in some enquiries after family documents in the British Museum lately, I lighted on a little poem, which, though not connected with my immediate object, I copied, and here subjoin, hoping your readers will be as much attracted as I was by the simplicity and elegance of the lines and thoughts; and that some one of them, with leisure and opportunity, will do what I had not time to do, namely,--decypher in the MSS. the _name_ of the "Worthie Knight" on whom this epitaph was composed, and give any particulars which can be ascertained concerning him. EPITAPH ON ---- (_Harleian MSS._, 78. 25. b. Pluto 63 E.) "Under this stone, thir ly'th at reste |
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