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Whilk the soul wanders
E’en where God will.

135. On a Bad Violinist:—

When Orpheus played he moved Old Nick:
But thou only moved thy fiddle-stick.

We have another on a fiddler, see No. 192.

136. From Norwich Cathedral:—

Here lies the body of honest Tom Page,
Who died in the 33 year of his age.
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137. From Aberconway Churchyard, Caernarvonshire:—

Here lieth the body of Nicholas Hooks, of Conway, gent, who was the
one-and-fortieth child of his father, William Hooks, Esq., by Alice his
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wife, and the father of seven-and-twenty children; he died the 20 day of
March, 1637.

138. At Nettlebed, Oxfordshire:—

Here lies Father and Mother, and Sister and I,
Wee all died within the space of one short year;
They be all buried at Wimble, except I,
And I be buried here.

139. From an old source:—

Whoso him bethought,
Inwardly and oft,
How sore it were to flit
From life into the pit,
From pit into pain
Which ne’er shall cease again,