The softest Carpets in your Rooms shall lie,
Pictures of happiest Loves shall meet your Eye,
And tallest Mirrors, reaching to the Floor,

Shall shew you all the Object I adore ;

Who, by the Hands of Wealth and Fashion drest,
By Slaves attended and by Friends carest,
Shall move, a Wonder, through the public Ways,
And hear the whispers of adoring praise.

"Your female Friends, though gayest of the Gay, Shall see you happy, and shall, sighing, say, While smother'd Envy rises in the Breast, 'Oh! that we liv'd, so beauteous and so blest!' "Come then, my Mistress and my Wife :-for she Who trusts my honor, is the Wife for me; Your Slave, your Husband, and your Friend, employ, In search of pleasures we may both enjoy.” To this the Damsel, meekly firm, replied: "My Mother lov'd, was married, toil'd and died With joys she'd griefs, had troubles in her course, But not one grief was pointed by remorse; My Mind is fixt, to Heaven I resign,

And be her Love, her Life, her Comforts, mine."

Tyrants have wept; and those with Hearts of Steel Who caus'd the anguish they disdain'd to heal, Have at some time, the power of Virtue known, And felt another's good promote their own: Our Knight relenting, now befriends the Youth, Who took the Maid, with innocence and truth

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And finds in that fair deed, a sacred joy,
That will not perish, and that cannot cloy ;-

A living joy, that shall its vigour keep,

When Beauty all decays, and all the Passions sleep.

PART III.

BURIALS.

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ARGUMENT.

True Christian Resignation not frequently to be seen.— The Register a melancholy Record. A dying Man, who at length sends for a Priest: for what Purpose? answered.-Old Collet, of the Inn, an Instance of Dr. Young's slow-sudden Death: his Character and Conduct. The Manners and Management of the Widow Goe: her successful Attention to Business: her Decease unexpected.-The Infant-Boy of Gerard Ablett dies: Reflections on his Death, and the Survivor his Sister-Twin.-The Funeral of the deceased Lady of the Manor described: her neglected Mansion: Undertaker and Train: the Character which her Monument will hereafter display.-Burial of an Ancient Maiden: some former Drawback on her Virgin-fame: Description of her House and Household: Her Manners, Apprehensions, Death.-Isaac Ashford, a virtuous Peasant, dies: his manly Character: Reluctance to enter the PoorHouse; and why.-Misfortune and Derangement of Intellect in Robin Dingley: whence they proceeded : He is not restrained by Misery from a wandering Life: his various Returns to his Parish: his final Return.Wife of Farmer Frankford, dies in prime of Life: Affliction in consequence of such Death: melancholy View of her House, &c. on her Family's Return from her Funeral: Address to Sorrow.-Leah Cousins, a Midwife: her Character; and successful Practice; at length opposed by Doctor Glibb: Opposition in the Parish: Argument of the Doctor; of Leah: her Failure and Decease.-Burial of Roger Ċuff, a Sailor: his Enmity to his Family; how it originated: his Experiment and its Consequence.-The Register terminates: A Bell heard: Inquiry for whom?-The Sexton.-Character of Old Dibble, and the five Rectors whom he served. Reflections.-Conclusion.

THERE was, 'tis said, and I believe, a Time, When humble Christians died with views sublime; When all were ready for their Faith to bleed, But few to write or wrangle for their Creed; When lively Faith upheld the sinking Heart, And Friends assur'd to meet, prepar'd to part; When Love felt Hope, when Sorrow grew serene, And all was Comfort, in the Death-bed Scene. Alas! when now the gloomy King they wait, 'Tis Weakness yielding to resistless Fate; Like wretched Men upon the Ocean cast, They labour hard and struggle to the last ;