Underneath this stone doth lie, As much virtue as could die; Which when alive did vigour give, To as much beauty as could live; If she had a single fault, Leave it buried in this vault. Another on the same, from the same source:-- Underneath this sable hearse, Lies the subject of all verse, Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother, Death ere thou hast slain another, Fair, and good, and learn'd as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee; Marble piles, let no man raise To her fame; for after days, Some kind woman born as she, Reading this, like Niobe, Shall turn statue and become Both her mourner and her tomb. A CORRESPONDENT. * * * * * The Londiners pronounce woe to him, that buyes a horse in Smith-field, that takes a Seruant in Paul's Church, that marries a Wife out of Westminster. Londiners, and all within the sound of Bow-Bell, are in reproch called Cocknies, and eaters of buttered tostes. The Kentish men of old were said to haue tayles, because trafficking in the Low Countries, they neuer paid full payments of what they did owe, but still left some part vnpaid. Essex men are called calues, (because they abound there,) Lankashire eggepies, and to be wonne by an Apple with a red side. Norfolke wyles (for crafty litigiousness:) Essex stiles, (so many as make walking tedious,) Kentish miles (of the length.) --_Moryson's Itinerary_, 1617. * * * * * ORIGIN OF THE WORD SMECTYMNUUS. (For the _Mirror_.) This was a cant term that made some figure in the time of the Civil War, and during the Interregnum. It was formed of the initial letters of the names of five eminent Presbyterian ministers of that time, viz. Stephen Marshall, Edmund Calamy, Thomas Young, Matthew Newcomen, and William Spenstow; who, together, wrote a book against Episcopacy, in the year 1641, whence they and their retainers were called Smectymnuans. They wore handkerchiefs about their necks for a note of distinction (as the officers of the parliament-army then did) which afterwards degenerated into cravats. P.T.W. * * * * * CIVIC FEAST IN 1506. (For the _Mirror_.) In the court room of Salters' Hall there appears, framed and glazed, the following "Bill of fare for fifty people of the Company of Salters, A.D. 1506."