The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 10, No. 281, November 3, 1827 by Various
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Your mourning will be chang'd to glee--
For then you'll live in _clover_. * * * * * _Necessitas non habet legem._ ON SIR JOHN ANSTRUTHER. _By the Honourable Thomas Erskine._ Necessity and Law are alike each other: Necessity has no Law--nor has Anstruther. * * * * * EPITAPH ON A CONTROVERSIALIST. On the death of that turbulent and refractory enthusiast, John Lilburne, _alias Free-born John, alias Lilburne the Trouble-world_, there appeared the following epigrammatic epitaph:-- Is John departed, and is Lilburne gone? Farewell to both, to Lilburne and to John! Yet being gone, take this advice from me, Let them not _both_ in one grave buried be. |
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