...might come to his grandchildren, the offspring of Mary and Anne. E a TBallau, on George VftUero. " In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floor of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, hut repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains,...

...many a brave and wise man of fifty years ago would have been unable to read without honourable tears : In the worst inn's worst room, with, mat half -hung, The floor of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with, straw, With tape-tied curtains...

...is thus described by Mr. Pope: "In ill- worst inn's worst, with mat half hung, The floor of plaster, and the walls of dung; On once a flock bed, but repair'd with straw, The tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed, Where tawdry...

...tho' not to the extent attribut«! in the effective lines on his death-bed in Pope's "Moral Essaye." " In the worst Inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floor of plaster, and the wall» of dung, ' On once a flock bed but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains...

...Buckingham, of the gay court of Charles II. In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung The floors of plaister, and the walls of dung, On once a flock bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tyed curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry...

...famous than Pope's description of the last illness and obscure death of the once princely Buckingham : " In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floor of plaster, and the walls of dung ; On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains...

...which the poet speaks in such biting terms of the end of this once proud favourite of fortune : — In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floor of plaster and the walls of dung, On once a flock bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains,...

...echo to the tinkling rills, The lakes that quiver to the curling breeze,1 etc. with the following; In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half -hung,...floor of plaister, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter...

...description is easily demonstrated : — ' In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaister and the walls of dung, On once a flock bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw ; Great Villiers lies — ' says the...