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LIFE.

  Man is a glass, life is the water,
    That’s weakly walled about: 
  Sin brings in death, death breaks the glass,
    So runs the water out. 
GEO. F.

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LINES WRITTEN ON A LADY’S WEEPING AT HER MARRIAGE.

  When on her love, with heart sincere,
  The maid bestowed her hand, she dropt a tear. 
  Delightful omen of her life’s employ,
  For they who sow in tears shall reap in joy.

J. R. R.

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OLD PRICES.

Echard, in his “History of England,” gives us the rates or prices of the following provisions in the year 1299, being the 27th of Edward I.:—­A fat cock, 1-1/2_d_.; a goose, 4_d_.; a fat capon, 2-1/2_d_.; 2 pullets, 1-1/2_d_.; a mallard, 1-1/2_d_.; a pheasant, 4_d_.; a heron, 6_d_.; a plover, 1_d_.; a swan, 3_s_.; a crane. 1_s_.; 2 wood-cocks, 1-1/2_d_.; a fat lamb, (from Christmas to Shrovetide,) 1_s_. 4_d_., and all the year after 4_d_. only.  Lastly, wheat was sold for 20_d_. the quarter, and in some places for 6_d_., or 4_s_. of our money.

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LIMBIRD’s EDITION OF THE Following Novels are already Published: 

s.  d. 
Mackenzie’s Man of Feeling             0   6
Paul and Virginia                      0   6
The Castle of Otranto                  0   6
Almoran and Hamet                      0   6
Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia    0   6
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne     0   6
Rasselas                               0   8
The Old English Baron                  0   8
Nature and Art                         0   8
Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield         0  10
Sicilian Romance                       1   0
The Man of the World                   1   0
A Simple Story                         1   4
Joseph Andrews                         1   6
Humphry Clinker                        1   8
The Romance of the Forest              1   8
The Italian                            2   0
Zeluco, by Dr. Moore                   2   6
Edward, by Dr. Moore                   2   0
Roderick Random                        2   6
The Mysteries of Udolpho               3   6

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Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand (near Somerset House,) London; sold by ERNEST FLEISCHER, 626, New Market, Leipsic, and by all Newsmen and Booksellers.