THE EPITAPH

Here lies Judge Boat within a coffin:

Pray, gentlefolks, forbear your scoffing.

A Boat a judge! yes; where's the blunder?

A wooden judge is no such wonder.

And in his robes you must agree,

No boat was better deckt than he.

'Tis needless to describe him fuller;

In short, he was an able sculler.[7]

[Footnote 1: A street in Dublin, leading to the harbour.]

[Footnote 2: A village near the sea.]

[Footnote 3: It was said he died of a dropsy.]

[Footnote 4: A cant word for a Jacobite.]

[Footnote 5: In condemning malefactors, as a judge.]

[Footnote 6: Where the Dublin gallows stands.]

[Footnote 7: Query, whether the author meant scholar, and wilfully

mistook?--_Dublin Edition._]

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