If drugs and physic could but save Us mortals from the dreary grave, ’Tis known that I took full enough Of the apothecaries’ stuff To have prolonged life’s busy feast To a full century at least; But spite of all the doctors’ skill, Of daily draught and nightly pill, Reader, as sure as you’re alive, I was sent here at twenty-five. * * * * * Poor Jerry’s Epitaph. Here lies poor Jerry, Who always seem’d merry, But happiness needed. He tried all he could To be something good, But never succeeded. He married two wives: The first good, but somewhat quaint; The second very good—like a saint. In peace may they rest. And when they come to heaven, May they all be forgiven For marrying such a pest. * * * * * On three infants. If you’re disposed to weep for sinners dead, About these children trouble not your head, Reserve your grief for them of riper years, They as has never sinned can’t want no tears. * * * * * On a Drunkard. The draught is drunk, poor Tip is dead. He’s top’d his last and reeled to bed. * * * * * On a Rum and Milk Drinker. Rum and milk I had in store, Till my poor belly could hold no more: It caused me to be so fat, My death was owing unto that. * * * * * On Joseph Crump, a Musician. Once ruddy and plump, But now a pale lump, Beneath this safe hump, Lies honest Joe Crump, Who wish’d to his neighbours no evil, Who, tho’ by Death’s thump He’s laid on his rump, Yet up he shall jump When he hears the last trump, And triumph o’er Death and the Devil. * * * * * On Sir Isaac Newton. Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night, God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light. * * * * * An Attorney. Here lieth one who often lied before, But now he lies here he lies no more. * * * * * On Peter Wilson, Who was drowned. Peter was in the ocean drown’d, A careless, hapless creature! And when his lifeless trunk was found, It was become Salt Peter. * * * * * Here lies the body of an honest man. And when he died he owed nobody nothing. * * * * * Good Friend for Jesus SAKE forbeare To diGG T--E Dust encloAsed HERE. Blest be T--E Man Y--T spares T--Es Stones And curst be He Y--T moves my Bones.