And soon you’ll own she is the fairest maid
To stifle pain and drive old Care away.
Nor deem it waste, what though to ash she burns,
If for your outlay you get good Returns!
Some time since, in Cope’s Tobacco Plant, there was a competition for the best inscription for a Tobacco Jar. The first and second prizes were awarded to the following, and many others were printed:—
First.
Inscription for a Tobacco Jar.
Three hundred year ago or soe,
Ane worthye knight and gentleman
Did bring mee here, to charm and cheer