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ELEGY

To the Memory of Miss Emily Kay, (cousin to Miss Ellen Gee, of Kew,) who lately died at Ewell, and was buried in Essex.

D.T.  Fabula narratur.

  Sad nymphs of UL, U have much to cry for,
    Sweet MLE K U never more shall C! 
  O SX maids! come hither and VU,
    With tearful I this M T LEG.

  Without XS she did XL alway—­
    Ah me! it truly vexes 1 2 C
  How soon so DR a creature may DK,
    And only leave behind XUVE!

  Whate’er I O to do she did discharge,
    So that an NME it might NDR: 
  Then Y an SA write? then why N? 
    Or with my briny tears her BR BDU?

  When her Piano-40 she did press,
    Such heavenly sounds did MN8, that she,
  Knowing her Q, soon I U 2 confess
    Her XLNC in an XTC.

  Her hair was soft as silk, not YRE,
    It gave no Q nor yet 2 P to view: 
  She was not handsome:  shall I tell U Y? 
    U R 2 know her I was all SQ.

  L8 she was, and prattling like AJ. 
    O, little MLE! did you 4 C
  The grave should soon MUU, cold as clay. 
    And U should cease to B an NTT!

  While taking T at Q with LN G,
    The MT grate she rose to put a(:)
  Her clothes caught fire—­I ne’er again shall C
    Poor MLE, who now is dead as Solon.

  O, LN G! in vain you set at 0
    GR and reproach for suffering her 2 B
  Thus sacrificed:  to JL U should be brought
    And burnt U 0 2 B in FEG.

  Sweet MLE K into SX they bore,
    Taking good care her monument to Y 10,
  And as her tomb was much 2 low B 4,
    They lately brought fresh bricks the walls to I 10.

New Monthly Mag.

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Notes of a Reader.

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A NEW CYCLOPAEDIA.

A “Cabinet Cyclopaedia” is announced for publication, under the superintendance of Dr. Lardner.  It is to consist of a series of “Cabinets” of the several sciences, &c. and upwards of 100 volumes, to be published monthly, are already announced in the prospectus; or nine years publishing.  The design is not altogether new, it being from the Encyclopaedie Methodique, a series of dictionaries, now publishing in Paris; and about four years since a similar work was commenced in England, but only three volumes or dictionaries of the series were published.  If this be the flimsy age, the “Cabinet Cyclopaedia” is certainly not one of the flimsiest of its projects; and for the credit of the age, we wish the undertaking all success.

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“A GENTLEMAN”

Is a term very vaguely applied, and indistinctly understood.  There are Gentlemen by birth, Gentlemen by education, Gentlemen’s Gentlemen, Gentlemen of the Press, Gentlemen Pensioners, Gentlemen, whom nobody thinks it worth while to call otherwise; Honourable Gentlemen, Walking Gentlemen of strolling companies, Light-fingered Gentlemen, &c. &c. very respectable Gentlemen, and God Almighty’s Gentlemen.—­Blackwood’s Magazine.