Here Whitefoord reclines. The circumstances which led to the insertion of these lines in the fifth edition are detailed in the prefatory words of the publisher given at p. 92. There is more than a suspicion that Whitefoord wrote them himself; but they have too long been accepted as an appendage to the poem to be now displaced. Caleb Whitefoord (born 1734) was a Scotchman, a wine-merchant, and an art connoisseur, to whom J. T. Smith, in his _Life of Nollekens_, 1828, i. 333–41, devotes several pages. He was one of the party at the St. James’s Coffee-house. He died in 1810. There is a caricature of him in ‘Connoisseurs inspecting a Collection of George Morland,’ November, 16, 1807; and Wilkie’s _Letter of Introduction_, 1814, was a reminiscence of a visit which, when he first came to London, he paid to Whitefoord. He was also painted by Reynolds and Stuart. Hewins’s _Whitefoord Papers_, 1898, throw no light upon the story of the epitaph. a grave man. Cf. _Romeo and Juliet_, Act iii, Sc. 1:—‘Ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me _a grave man_.’ This Shakespearean recollection is a little like Goldsmith’s way. (See note to _The Haunch of Venison_, l. 120.) and rejoic’d in a pun. ‘Mr. W. is so notorious a punster, that Doctor Goldsmith used to say, it was impossible to keep him company, without being _infected_ with the _itch of punning_.’ (Note to fifth edition.) ‘if the table he set on a roar.’ Cf. _Hamlet_, Act v, Sc. I. Woodfall, i.e. Henry Sampson Woodfall, printer of _The Public Advertiser_. He died in 1805. (See note to l. 115.) Cross-Readings, Ship-News, and Mistakes of the Press. Over the _nom de guerre_ of ‘Papyrius Cursor,’ a real Roman name, but as happy in its applicability as Thackeray’s ‘Manlius Pennialinus,’ Whitefoord contributed many specimens of this mechanic wit to _The Public Advertiser_. The ‘Cross Readings’ were obtained by taking two or three columns of a newspaper horizontally and ‘onwards’ instead of ‘vertically’ and downwards, thus:— Colds caught at this season are The Companion to the Playhouse. or To be sold to the best Bidder, My seat in Parliament being vacated. A more elaborate example is On Tuesday an address was presented; it unhappily missed fire and the villain made off, when the honour of knighthood was conferred on him to the great joy of that noble family