The report of this adventure entertained the town for nine days; but on the tenth, through the patronage of his protectresses, Dulcet was dubbed a knight, and soon after married a cheesemonger's daughter, ugly enough to have a hereditary claim to virtue; but who possessed an ample fortune, and was most anxious to become a lady.
The librarian was proceeding to give me an account of the next personage, a Dr. Cleaver, when the bell rung for dinner, and we adjourned our illustrations until the following morning.
V.
THE SORROWS OF LIFE.
Who would recal departed days and years To tread again the dark and cheerless road, Which, leading through this gloomy vale of tears, His weary feet in pain and toil have trod! I've felt the bitterness of grief—I've shed Such tears as only wretched mortals pour, And wish'd among the calm and quiet dead To find my sorrows and my sufferings o'er; Yet firm in heart and hope I still bear up, And onward steer my course true—a true "Flare-up".
STRAY CHAPTERS.
BY BOZ.