My bellows, too, have lost their wind;
My fire's extinguish'd, and my forge decay'd,
And in the silent dust my vice is laid.
My coal is spent, my stock of iron's gone,
My last nail driven, and my work is done."
C. WILLIAMS.
Bradford, Yorkshire.
Sir Thomas Overbury's Epitaph.
—I do not think that the epitaph of the unfortunate Sir Thomas Overbury, poisoned by Carr, Earl of Somerset, in 1613-14, has ever been published. I send it to you, copied from a manuscript on a blank leaf of a black-letter copy of Howe's Abridgement of Stow's Chronicle in my possession.
"1614.