A pamphlet published in the year 1703, has the following strange title— "The _Deformity_ of Sin Cured, a sermon preached at St. Michael's, _Crooked_ Lane, before the Prince of Orange, by the Rev. James _Crook_shanks. Sold by Matthew Dowton, at the _Crooked_ Billet, near _Cripple_gate, and by all other Booksellers." The words of the text are, "Every _crooked_ path shall be made straight," and the Prince before whom it was preached was _crooked_, i. e., deformed. _The Bride of Abydos._ In this poem of Byron's there is no _bride_, for the heroine dies heart-broken and unwedded. _Grandiloquent Outbursts._ There is a volume printed at Amsterdam, 1657, entitled: "Jesus, Maria, Joseph; or the Devout Pilgrim of the Everlasting Blessed Virgin Mary, in his Holy Exercises, Affections and Elevations, upon the sacred Mysteries of Jesus, Maria and Joseph." We append a few extracts from this curious book, as a specimen of the language employed at that time in addressing the Virgin— "You, O Mother of God, are the Spiritual Paradise of the second Adam; the bright cloud carrying him who hath the cherubims for his chariot; the fleece of wool filled with the sweet dew of heaven, whereof was made that admirable robe of our royal shepherd, in which he vouchsafed to look after his sheep; you are pleasing and comely as Jerusalem, and the aromatical odours issuing from your garments outvie all the delights of Mount Lebanon; you are the sacred pix of celestial perfumes, whose sweet exhalations shall never be exhausted; you are the holy oil, the unextinguishable lamp, the unfading flower, the divinely-woven purple, the royal vestment, the imperial diadem, the throne of the divinity, the gate of Paradise, the queen of the universe, the cabinet of life, the fountain ever flowing with celestial illustrations." "All hail! the divine lantern encompassing that crystal lamp whose light outshines the sun in its midday splendour; the spiritual sea whence the world's richest pearl was extracted; the radiant sphere, the well-fenced orchard, the fruitful border, the fair and delicate garden, the nuptial bed of the eternal world, the odoriferous and happy City of God, etc., etc." _Dialect Rhyme._ The subjoined is a specimen of the dialect spoken in the county of Lancashire, England. The verse is a description of a lost baby, by the town-crier, or bellman, who still plies his trade in out-of-the-way parts of England— Law-st oather [either] to-day or else some toime to morn, As pratty a babby as ever wur born; It has cheeks like red roses, two bonny blue een, Had it meauth daubed wi' traycle th' last toime it were seen; It's just cuttin' it teeth, an' has very sore gums, An' it's gettin' a habit o' suckin' it thumbs; Thoose at foind it may keep it, there's nob'dy'll care, For thoose at hav lost it, hav lots moor to spare! _In Search of a Rhyme._