Different authors have strenuously contended for giving the honour of
supremacy to either of these places over both Britain and Gaul, in the
days of Druidism; but Rowlands has industriously placed its chief seat in
Anglesey.
LEATHART.
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TRANSLATED EPITAPH.
(_To the Editor of the Mirror_.)
Quod fuit esse quod est, quod non fuit esse quod esse,
Esse quod est non esse, quod est non, erit esse.
As a translation of this curious epitaph (in Lavenham churchyard) which
is formed out of two Latin words, has been requested from some of your
readers, I send the following:--
What John Giles has been
Is what he is, (_a bachelor_.)
What he has not been,
Is what he is, (_a corpse_.)
To be what he is
Is not to be, (_a living creature_.)
He will have to be
What he is not. (_dust_.)
JOSEPH MASON.
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_Another_.
What we have been and what we are,
The present and the time that's past,
We cannot properly compare
With what we are to be at last.
Tho' we ourselves have fancied forms,
And beings that have never been,
We unto something shall be turned--
Which we have not conceived or seen.
G.H.
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MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.
(_For the Mirror_.)
The ensuing letter, though very short, discloses one or two instances
connected with a subject of unfading interest--the death of Mary Queen
of Scots.
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