On Tremont Street, in the busy heart of Boston, is the beautiful little “burying ground,” called the “Granary”; Paul Revere, John Quincy Adams, John Hancock, and other distinguished citizens of New England rest here under trees which have shaded their graves for more than a century. There is also shown the visitor the grave of “Mother Goose,” the alleged author of the Mother Goose Rhymes. It may be iconoclastic to shatter a legend, but the truth is, the Mother Goose Rhymes had been jingling for a century and more before this good lady was born; it appears that in ancient times, the goose was a famous story-teller for children, and the Goose Melodies are an adaptation from the French. The monument in the “Granary” is erected to Mary Goose, wife of Isaac Goose; it would seem that her claim to fame rests entirely upon her recitation of the Hubbard Melodies to such an extent that her son-in-law, Thomas Fleet, who was a printer, issued a special edition for her. PIERS PLOWMAN Piers Plowman, in the fourteenth century, thus made his will: “And I wish ere I wend, now to write out my will. In God’s name, amen! lo! I make it myself. May God have my soul who hath saved and deserved it, Let the kirk have my carrion and keep well my bones.” WILL OF PAUL SCARRON The will of Paul Scarron, which he chose to write in verse, is not a particularly attractive production. It consists of about two hundred lines; the following may be taken as a specimen: “Premièrement je donne et je légue A ma femme, qui n’est point bégue, Pouvoir de se remarier, De crainte d’un plus grand désordre. Mais pour moi je crois que cet ordre, De ma dernière volonté Sera celui le mieux exécuté.” As is well known, Scarron was a French author and playwright. In 1652 he married the beautiful Francine d’Aubigne, afterward Madame de Maintenon. He died on October 6, 1660. FRANÇOIS VILLON François Villon is an unique character in history, romance and poetry. He died about 1484. “The Poems of Master François Villon of Paris done into English Verse by John Payne,” contain his two chief compositions entitled, “The Lesser Testament,” and “The Greater Testament”: they are satires of considerable merit and length, and a verse from the first and two from the last will suffice to show their character and his style. From the first: “Item, my gloves and silken hood My friend Jacques Cardon, I declare, Shall have in fair free gift for good; Also the acorns willows bear And every day a capon fair Or goose; likewise a tenfold vat Of chalk-white wine, besides a pair Of lawsuits, lest he wax too fat.” From the last: