LONDINIANA.

_For the Table Book._

Mr. Editor,--Since most of your readers will readily admit the propriety

of the adage, “Time and quarter-day wait for no man,” allow me the

favour of insertion for the following rhyming couplets, by John Heywood

the elder, distinctively known as “the epigrammatist.” They are an

extract from his “Workes, newlie imprinted, with six hundrede very

pleasant, pithie, and ingenious Epigrammes, 1598, 4to.;” and are thus

entitled:--