GATHERER.

"I am but a Gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff."--Wotton.

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TO ****

Moria pur quando vuol non e bisogna mutar ni faccia ni voci per esser un
Angelo.--The words addressed by Lord Herbert of Cherbury, to the
beautiful Nun at Murano. (See his Life.)

_Translation_.

Die when you will, you need not wear At heaven's Court, a form more
fair, Than beauty here on earth has giv'n, Keep but the lovely looks we
see--The voice we hear--and you will be An angel _ready made_ for
heaven.

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A CARD

_Left at the_ Queen's house _during the_ King's _illness in March_,
1801.

"Captain Blake of the Grenadiers, (George 1st.), was in the regiment of
Colonel Murray at the battle of Preston Pans, in the year 1745. He was
left among the dead in the field of action, with no less than eleven
wounds, one so capital as to carry away three inches of his skull. Has
been preserved fifty-six years to relate the event, and enabled by
gracious protection, to make his personal inquiry after his majesty."

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MARGARET NICHOLSON.

The following is the original, epistle of this famous lunatic to the
matron of Bedlam; No other proof is necessary of her insanity:--

Madam,--I've recollected perhaps 'tis necessary to acquaint you upon
what account I continue here yet, _maim_, after making you privy to my
great concerns, _madam_ I only wait for alteration of the globe which
belongs to this house, _maim_ and if the time is almost expired I wish
to know it _maim_. Tho' I am not unhealthy, yet I am very weak, know
_maim_ therefore I hope it won't be long _maim_.

I am, madam, your most obedient,

Wednesday. M. NICHOLSON.

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LADY ARCHER, Formerly Miss West, lived to a good age--a proof that
cosmetics are not so fatal as has been supposed. Nature had given her a
fine aquiline nose, like, the princesses of the house of Austria, and
she did not fail to give herself a complexion. She resembled a fine old
wainscotted painting with the face and features shining through a thick
incrustation of copal varnish.

Her ladyship was for many years the wonder of the fashionable world,
envied by all the ladies that frequented the court. She had a splendid
house in Portland-place, with _et caetera_ equal in brilliancy and
beauty to, or rather surpassing those of any of her contemp