oor prayers Thine own,
_p_ _Miserere_, _Domine_.

3. When some sorrow, pressing sore,
Tells me, that life nevermore
_cres._ Can be, as it was of yore,
_p_ _Miserere_, _Domine_.

4. Let me hear the Voice, that said,
"It is I, be not afraid";
_cres._ So the sorrow shall be stay'd,
_p_ _Miserere_, _Domine_.

5. When the hour of death is nigh,
And the watchers, standing by,
_cres._ Raise the supplicating cry,
_p_ _Miserere_, _Domine_.

6. Take me to Thy promised rest,
Number me among the blest,
_p_ Poor, and yet a welcomed guest.
_f_ _Alleluia_, _Domine_.

Footnotes:

{5} I remember once walking from Alton to Petersfield, and passing
unwittingly through Selborne.

{8} This was the Samuel Henley, D.D., that translated Beckford's
'Vathek' from the French.

{11} She was hanged on 26th June 1815, for attempting to poison her
master's family; and her story, reprinted from 'Maga,' forms a chapter in
Paget's 'Paradoxes and Puzzles' (1874). That chapter I read to my father
the summer before his death. It disappointed him, for he had always
cherished the popular belief in her innocence.

{12} I am reminded of a case, long afterwards, where a clergyman had
obtained a wealthy living on the condition that the retiring rector
should, so long as he lived, receive nearly half the tithes. An aged man
at the time the bargain was struck, that rector lived on and on for close
upon twenty years; and his successor would ever and again come over to
see my father, and ask his "advice." "What could I advise him?" said my
father; "for we live in Suffolk, not Venice, so a bravo is out of the
question."

{17} A writer in the 'Athenaeum' (I could make a shrewd guess at his
name), after quoting the whist story, goes on: "Dr Belman was the country
doctor who, on being asked what he thought of Phrenology, answered with
equal promptitude and gravity, 'I never keep it and never use it. But I
have heard that, given every three hours in large doses, it has been very
efficacious in certain cases of gout.'"

{20} In 1881 the population was exactly 400. Ten years before it had
been 470, ten years later had sunk to 315.

{22} I don't think it was Tom who employed that truly Suffolk simile--"I
look upon this here chapel as the biler, yeou togither as the dumplins,
and I'm the spoon that stars yeou up."

{31} Nicknames are very common--"Wedgy," "Shadder," "Stumpy," "Buskins,"
"Colly," &c.

{33} Seemed.