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 to thy own, the remainder of his days,—nor restored to his restless till this very moment, that I tell the world the story.

Can the reader believe, that this sermon of Yoricks was preach'd at an assize, in the cathedral of York, before a thousand witnesses, ready to give oath of it, by a certain prebendary of that church, and actually printed by him when he had done,—and within so short a space as two years and three months after Yoricks death.—Yorick, indeed, was never better served in his life!—but it was a little hard to male-treat him after, and plunder him after he was laid in his grave.

However, as the gentleman who did it, was in perfect charity with Yorick,—and, in conscious justice, printed but a