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 "Iota." Five other fugitive pieces were printed in the volume of "Lancashire Lyrics" which he edited in 1866; one more appeared in Country Words; and only a few weeks before his death he read the following simnel song to a meeting of the Manchester Literary Club, of which he was long a valued member. "A SYMNELLE SONGE.

J.H.", March 16, 1868. When Mr Harland penned the preceding lines he had engaged to accompany the Literary Club in an excursion to Stratford-upon-Avon, on the anniversary of Shakespeare's birth and death. As the time drew near he felt unwell, and wrote to the President playfully requesting that he