III. "Surpriz'd at such a sharp rebuke, He cast about his cautious eyes, Invoking _Vict'ry_ and _the Duke_, And once again attack'd the prize; Again is taught to apprehend, How guardian thorns the rose defend. IV. "Force being twice in vain apply'd, He condescended then to reason; 'Ye _Jacobitish_ ----,' he cry'd 'In open street, the love of treason With your white roses to proclaim! Go home, ye rebel slut, for shame!' {435} V. "'Go you abroad to Flanders yonder, And show your valour there, Sir Knight; What bus'ness have you here, I wonder, With people's roses, red or white? Go you abroad, for shame,' says Phillis, 'And from the Frenchmen pluck their lilies.' VI. "'Lilies!' says Thraso, 'lilies too! The wench, I find, would be a wit, Had she command of words eno', And on the right one chanced to hit: For pity, once, I'll set her clear: The laurels, you would say, my dear.' VII. "'No, but I would not, Sir; you know What laurels are no more than I, Upon your head they'll never grow, My word for that, friend, and good-bye: _He that of roses robs a wench,_ _Will ne'er pluck laurels from the French._'" JAS. CROSSLEY. * * * * * BURIAL OF UNCLAIMED CORPSE. (Vol. vii., pp. 262. 340.) A tradition of similar character with that mentioned by E. G. R., and noticed by J. H. L., is reported to have occurred between the parishes of Shipdham and Saham Tony in Norfolk, of a corpse being found on the common pasture of Shipdham, which parish refused to bury it, and the parish of Saham Tony, therefore, was at the expense thereof, and claimed a considerable piece of the common pasture from Shipdham, in consequence of the neglect of the latter parish. A fine continues to be paid by Shipdham to Saham to this time; and although many entries are made of such payments in the early parish accounts, beginning A.D. 1511, yet in no instance is it said the reason or cause of these payments being annually made. The said payments are not always of the same amount; they are sometimes paid in money and sometimes in kind, as the following instances show. The first entry I meet with is in 1511: