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 *book Pyramid meets with Thisby in a church-yard, near a great lord's tomb, for it seems lords did not then bury in the church. To be understood, I suppose, the church-yard to be near town, at Mary-le-bone, for instance; so off they set out to meet. Athalia gets first to the place." "Do not you think that makes Carolino very ungallant?" "Oh no, sir. You see Carolino is her first love, and she has been to boarding school, and reads novels and love-stories, and is therefore the more coming. Thisby, in the story, gets to the church-yard before Pyramid; it is as it were more a novelty to her." "A most excellent comment upon Ovid's Thisbe," said our hero." "Yes Sir," said the young lady, simpering; "that same Ovid knew our sect." By this time, in the progress of criticism, our Longinus's hand happened to have doubled the fair Sappho's neck, with its