Impromptu by Gray on Going Out of Raby Castle, After Dining with Harry Vane.
Here lives Harry Vane,
Very good claret and fine champaign.
Epigrams on Dr. Keene, Bishop of Chester.
The Bishop of Chester,
Though wiser than Nestor
And fairer than Esther,
If you scratch him will fester.
Here lies Edmund Keene Lord Bishop of Chester,
He eat a fat goose, and could not digest her.
Here lies Mrs. Keene the she Bishop of Chester,
She had a bad face which did sadly molest her.
Parody on an Epitaph.
Now clean, now hideous, mellow now, now gruff,
She swept, she hissed, she ripened and grew rough,
At Brougham, Pendragon, Appleby and Brough.
A Couplet on Dining.
When you rise from your dinner as light as before,
’Tis a sign you have eat just enough and no more.
Couplet About Birds.
There pipes the woodlark, and the song-thrush there
Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air.