Within this Hive We're all alive, Good liquors make us funny, If you are dry, Step in and try The flavour of our honey. * * * * * SOVEREIGNS AND GUINEAS, _And the reigns in which they have been coined_. First Sovereigns ... Henry VII ... 1485 Ditto, and half ... Henry VIII ... 1509 Ditto, ditto ... Edward VI ... 1546 Ditto, ditto ... Mary ... 1553 Ditto, ditto ... Philip & Mary ... 1554 Ditto, ditto ... Elizabeth ... 1558 Ditto, ditto ... James I ... 1603 Ditto, ditto ... Charles I ... 1625 Ditto, ditto ... Commonwealth ... 1648 Ditto, ditto ... Oliver Cromwell 1650 Guineas ... Charles II ... 1660 5l. piece, 2l. do. Guinea and half ditto ... James II ... 1684 Ditto, ditto ... Will. and Mary... 1688 Ditto, ditto ... William ... 1694 Ditto, ditto, and a quarter guinea ... Anne ... 1702 Ditto, ditto ... George I ... 1725 Ditto, ditto, but no quar. guineas ... George II ... 1726 Guineas, half do. Quarter ditto, 2 guinea piece, 5 guinea ditto ... George III ... 1760 Dble. Sovereign Sovereign, half ditto ... George IV ... 1820 * * * * * EPIGRAMS ON THE FEES DEMANDED FOR SEEING WESTMINSTER ABBEY. Dame Godly desired the Abbey to view, Admittance, one sixpence, demanded the clerk, Which modest request in astonishment wrapt her, How long will you such imposition pursue? Faith ma'am, as to that we are left in the dark, But I think, for my part, to the _end_ of the _Chapter_.[6] [6] The Dean and Chapter of Westminster are supposed to receive the money paid for seeing the Abbey. * * * * * Down with your cash, the Verger cries, How mean'st thou this? John Bull replies, What law protects th' extortion? Stop, gentle friend--what's law to us? The law's your own--so make no fuss, The _profits_ are _our_ portion. * * * * * Poets and prophets 'mongst the ancient Romans Were deemed the same, and this our pockets rue, For on _this_ creed is built our sacred showman's, Who has his _poets_ and his _profits_ too. * * * * * EPITAPH IN BRENTWOOD CHURCHYARD, ESSEX. Here lyes Isaac Greentree. A wag passing through the churchyard, wrote as follows:--