I found thirty pounds was the draught for each hour.
Pursuing my theme, for amusement was in it,
There were ten shillings sterling for each fleeting minute,
And for ev’ry pulsation of time, called a second,
“According to Cocker,” two-pence must be reckon’d.
PERCY HENDON.
In the churchyard of Carisbrook is the following epitaph on a loving couple:—
Of life he had the better slice,
They lived at once, and died at twice.