Bath.
_Acrostic in Ash Church, Kent._--The following acrostic is from a brass in
Ash Church, Kent. It is perhaps curious only from the fact of its being
unusual to inscribe this kind of verse on sepulchral monuments. The capital
letters at the commencement of each line are given as in the original:
"J John Brooke of the parish of Ashe
O Only he is nowe gone.
H His days are past, his corps is layd
N Now under this marble stone.
B Brookstrete he was the honor of,
R Robd now it is of name,
O Only because he had no sede
O Or children to have the same;
K Knowing that all must passe away,
E Even when God will, none can denay.
"He passed to God in the yere of Grace
One thousand fyve hundredth ffower score and two it was,
The sixteenthe daye of January, I tell now playne,
The five-and-twentieth yere of Elizabeth rayne."