"Die een peninck wint ende behovt
Die macht verteren als hi wort owt.
Had ick dat bedocht in min ionge dagen
Dorst ick het in min ovtheit niel beklagen."
Which being interpreted inform us that, He who gains a penny, and saves it, may live on it when he becomes old. Had I minded this in my youthful days, I should not have to complain in my old age.
J. S.
Norwich.
Steevens (Vol. ii., p. 476.; Vol. iii., p. 230.; Vol. vi., pp. 412. 531.).—Steevens's will contains no mention of any portrait of himself, nor any other except his picture of "Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Cibber, in the characters of Jaffier and Belvidera, painted by Zottanij," which he bequeaths to George Keate, Esq. He gives to Miss Charlotte Collins of Graffham, near Midhurst, daughter of the late Christopher and Margaret Collins of Midhurst, 500l. To his cousin Mary Collinson (late Mary Steevens), wife of William Collinson of Narrow Street, Ratcliffe Cross, Middlesex, 300l. for a ring (so in my copy). The residue of his property he gives to his dearest cousin Elizabeth Steevens of Poplar, spinster, and appoints her sole executrix of his will. A copy of the will can be met with in the ninth volume of the Monthly Mirror for 1800.
W. S. (Sheffield.)