A PACIFIC SHE.
Sir William Dawes, Archbishop of York, loved a pun very well. His clergy dining with him for the first time after he had lost his lady, he told them he feared they did not find things in so good order as they used to be in the time of poor Mary; and, looking extremely sorrowful, he added with a deep sigh, "She was, indeed, Mare Pacificum." A curate, who knew pretty well what the deceased lady had been in her domestic relations, said, "Aye, my Lord, but she was Mare Mortuum first!"