CURIOUS EPITAPHS. To the PUBLISHER,

SIR,

ACcording to promife I fend you the Epitaph, taken from

a Tombstone in this Church-yard. The child was very young; I think under two years. As the lines are very prerty, and the ideas contained in them highly poetical, I should be obliged if any of your Correfpondents will inform me from whence they are taken.I would alfo with you to infert the one I left with you, on four Children, as it will form a good contrast to this one. By fo doing you'll oblige

YARM, Jan. 9, 1793.

Yours, &c.

A. B.

BRIGHT as the gems the wealthy Orients boast,
Sweet as the odours of their spicy coast,

A pearly dew-drop fee fome ow'r adorn,

And grace with all its price the rifing morn ;
But foon the Sun emits a fiercer ray,
And the fair fabric rushes to decay;
Low in the dust the beauteous ruin lies,
While the pure vapour feeks its na ive skies:
A fate like this to this fweet child was given;
Who fparkled, bloom'd, and was exhal'd to heav's.

On FOUR CHILDREN.
FOUR finer babes you ne'er could fee
Than God Emeightee took from me:
Their death was caus'd by Ago fitts,
And here they lie, as dead as nitts.

Qui vixit fine Gown,

Sine Cloak, fine Shirt, fine Breeches.

PALMER, of ORFORD, within the Diocese of Rochefter, had this Epitaph.

PALMERS all ouer faders were,

I a Palmer lived here;

And travyld fill, till worn wyth age,

I ended this world's pilgrimage:

On the blyft Affention-day,

In the cherful month of May,

A thowfand wyth fowre hundred feven,

And took my Jorney up to heaven.

At St. Olave's,

Hart-freet.

SINCE Phillis now abfent doch rove,
In defpair I will throw by my crook ;
No joy I derive from the grove,

Nor delight in the murmuring brook,
Silent fpy of our pleafures, where oft
My Phillis hath fat by my fide;
1ts murmurs they bubbled fo feft,

And Time on light wings quick did glide.
My flock on the hills bleats at large;

My bees from their hives wing their way;
As, in truth, I'm unfit for their charge,
While my fair-one, thus cruel, doth tray.
Then adieu, ye dear plains, and ye rills,
In the worid I'm determin'd to roam;
What to me are its troublesome ills?
Much greate I fuffer at home.
EDGEFIELD.

G

SH.

ANSWERS to ENIGMAS, &c.

Reb. 7.

All the Ænigmas and Rebuffes anfwered by ARISTÆUS,
in an Addrefs to Mr. CHIPCHASE.
SHOULD you, dear Sir, but aid the plan,

The STOCKTON BEE would thrive;
And ga: er fweets from every man,

Did you infpect the hive.

Though Wesley's dead, there's Cockcane fair, R.1. 4.

And Hellop too, you'll find;

R 3.

YE artifts, skill'd in ænigmatic lore,

Exert your talents, and my name explore.

I was in paradife ere man's offence ;

Nor left I Eve when fin had drove her thence.
Oa Abel conftantly I did attend,

Tho' ne'er to Cain did I appear a friend.
I various shapes affume, and various dyes;
Andrent climes produce me differ nt fize,
I'm now in England, in my largest state:
In France I'm smaller, tho' not lefs complete ;

There

There fcoundrel Orleans, greedy of my charms,
Has ta'en me, two-fold, to his trait'rous arms;
And tho' Marat has nought to do with me,
Roberfpierre has; (the vileft of the three.)
Another hint, ye fair, left ye should doubt me,
Great George and Charlotte never go without me.

NEW

REBUSSES.

Curren

VIII. By Mr. R. COCKREL, Lartington.
MY first, ye shepherds, tends your fleecy care;
Ye farmers, for your Lords my next prepare.
My Whole, ye jolly rars, wou'd oft drive wrong,
(Tho' tweet's the breeze that wafts your cark along)
Unless, with naval art, ye cha g'd your courfe,
And fo, by changing, fhunn'd my hidden force.

IX. By Mr. W. TATE, Strantou.

MY first each traveller should show,
Whenever he abroad doth go,

That none obftru&t his way;
My fecond you will furely meet,
In every city, town, or ftreet,

man of parts,

At any time of day.
My whole will name 2
Learned in fciences and arts,

Befides a friend of truth;
His talents do profufely deal
Inflruction, to the public weal,

And much improve our yeuch.

X. By VITRINGA, Yarm.

MY firft or direct or revers'd is the fame;

And a common difeafe among fowls it will name:
My fecond, direct, will clearly expiels

What ladies oft ufe, when themselves they do drefs;
But if you reverse it, 'twill fhew very plain

What will turn white to black, and give people pain.
My whole you have rafted, without any doubt;
For 'tis both a common and excellent frui .

QUERIES ANSWERED.

I. Anfwered by the PROPOSER.

It is very well known, that mufical ple fore confifts in the perception of the mutual relation of founds. The fame principle holds good in poetry, architecture, &c. As the perception of relations is the only foundation of our pleasure and admiration; and hence it follows, that the relation of equality is preferred to all others, as being the most easy of perception.

ARISTEUS fays, The organs of our fenfes being any way affected with an agreeable fenfation by the fight of objects, or the founds of mufic, will caufc in us the pleasure inquired after: but unless our genius leads us to a relish for thofe arts, our fenfes will never be affected.-And Mr. W. TATE is nearly of the fame opinion.

II. Answered by the PROPOSER.

The identity of the e'ectric and æ herial fluids, feems to me quite an improbable hypothefis. For the æther alluded to by Sir I. Newton is not a really-exifting, but merely an hypothetical fluid, which fome philofophers have supposed to be the element of fire, others the caufe of attraction, &c. tho' I think that not only its properties but even its exiftence is unknown.--According to Sir Ifaac, the particles of her repel the particles of all other matter; but Dr. Priestley thinks the electric fluid attracts them; and if both thefe opinions be true, thofe two fluids cannot be the fame.

ARISTEUS is of a different opinion; and feems to think that the electric fluid is not only the cause of gravity, but of cohesion, &c. But our narrow limits will not permit us to infert his folution at length.

PHILOLOGER fays, The authors of the Encyclopædia Britannica, under the article ÆTHER, express themselves thus: "The late difcoveries in electricity have thrown 66 great light upon this fubject; and render it extremely probable, that the ather, so much talked of, is no other "than the electric fluid, or folar light, which diffuses itself "throughout the whole fyftem of Nature."

III. Anfwered