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42. On a Poet:—

Here let a bard unenvied rest,
Who no dull critic dares molest;
Escaped from the familiar ills
Of thread-bare coat and unpaid bills;
From rough bum-bailiffs’ upstart duns,
From sneering pride’s detested sons,
From all those pest’ring ills of life,
From, worse than all, a scolding wife.

43. On a Surgeon:—

Here lies in repose, after great deeds of blood,
An hospital surgeon thorough,
Who bled for his own and his country’s good,
And St. Thomas’s Hospital, Borough.

44. From Hordle, near Lymington. The Poacher’s Friend.—

In the churchyard of Hordle there was erected, in 1858, a granite obelisk
to the memory of the late J. Collett, Esq., who will be remembered for his
strong antagonism to the Game Laws, supporting his views by almost
indiscriminately paying the fines inflicted on parties convicted of poaching
whose cases were brought under his notice. Besides recording the date of
his death, etc., the obelisk has the following inscription:—

Ci-git l’ami du Braconnier.
Here lies the friend of the poacher.

45. From Bath Abbey:—

Near this place
lie interred the remains of Mary
Ann, second Daughter
of George Watts, Esq., and Ann his wife,
who died (after a lingering illness)