Our next example, dated 1834, from Purwell Hall, Batley, Yorkshire, was composed by a Miss Taylor. It is generally believed that her heart was won by a lover who did not meet with the approbation of her friends, and that they made her prisoner in one of the rooms of the old Hall, and there, on a pane of glass, were written the lines which follow:-- "Come, gentle Muse, wont to divert Corroding cares from anxious heart; Adjust me now to bear the smart Of a relenting angry heart. What though no being I have on earth, Though near the place that gave me birth, And kindred less regard do pay Than thy acquaintance of to-day: Know what the best of men declare, That they on earth but strangers are, Nor matter it a few years hence How fortune did to thee dispense, If--in a palace thou hast dwelt, Or--in a cell of penury felt-- Ruled as a prince--served as a slave, Six feet of earth is all thou'lt have. Hence give my thoughts a nobler theme, Since all the world is but a dream Of short endurance." Robert Burns wrote several lines on tavern windows. On a pane of glass at the Queensberry Arms, Sanquhar, he inscribed the following. "Ye gods! ye gave to me a wife Out of your grace and favour, To be a comfort to my life; And I was glad to have her. But if your providence divine For other ends design her, To obey your will at any time, I'm ready to resign her." Next may be quoted:-- "Envy, if thy jaundiced eye Through this window chance to pry, To thy sorrow, thou wilt find All that's generous, all that's kind: Virtue, friendship, every grace Dwelling in this happy place." Burns's lines written on the window-panes of the Globe Tavern, Dumfries, have frequently been quoted. The following inscription refers to the charms of the daughter of the factor of Closeburn estate, when the poet resided at Ellisland:-- "O lovely Polly Stewart, O charming Polly Stewart, There's not a flower that blooms in May, That's half so fair as thou art." In some editions of the poet's works, the following verse, stated to have been copied from a window of the same tavern, is given:-- "The graybeard, Old Wisdom, may boast of his treasures; Grant me with gay Folly to live; I grant him his calm-blooded, time settled pleasures; But Folly has raptures to give." Such are a few of the many rhymes scratched upon glass. Some of the panes on which they were inscribed may now be broken, and this may be the only means of preserving them. English Folk-Rhymes. English folk-rhymes are very numerous and curious. Characteristics of persons and places have given rise to not a few which are frequently far from complimentary. Weather-lore is often expressed in rhyme; the rustic muse has besides rendered historic events popular, and enabled persons to remember them who are not readers of books. The lines often lack polish, but are seldom without point.