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( 12 ) 30. EPITAPH on a Roving Young Man:

My life with pleaſantry was always fraught, Gady I liv'd at eaſe and natu e taught And wonder much that death that tyrant grim, Should think of me, that ever thought of Tim.

31. A punſter going along Holborn, when a great mob of ſpectators was gathering to ſee a malefactor paſs to his execution at Tyburn, aſked a gentleman, who was ſtanding in the crowd, if he knew the name of the fellow who was going to be hanged? Who anſwered, It was one Vowel. Said the punſter, Do you know which of then it is for there are ſeveral of that name? No, replied the other, I do not. Well, ſaid the way, us however is certain, and I am very glad of it, that it is neither U nor I.

32. Mr. Benſley, before he went on the ſtage was capain in the army. One day he met a Scotch officer, who had been in the ſame regiment. The letter was happy to meet an old claſſmate, but his Scotch pride nade him aſhamed to be ſeen with a Comedian; he therefore hurried Mr. Benſley into an unfrequented coffee-houſe, where he aſked him very ſeriously. He could ye diſ ce the corps by turning! Play-actor? Mr. Benſley replied, That he by no meals conſidered it in that light; that, on the contrary, a reſpectable Actor, who behaved with propriety, was looked upon in the beſt manner, and kept the company of the beſt people. And what, maun ſaid she other, do you get by this buſineſs of yours? now anſwered Mr. B. get about a thouſand a year A thouſand a-vear! exclaimed the Scotchman, aſtoniſhed: Hae you ony vacancies in your corps?

33 A Sailor being at a Quakers' meeting, heard the mend that was holding tortu, ſpeak was great vehe-