Garrick immediately said his epitaph was finished, and spoke the following distich extempore:

Skelton, the poet, who hated Wolsey, thereupon wrote the following distich:-

I avenged myself at dessert with the following distich:

The following distich shows what each forbodes:-'One sorrow, two mirth, three a wedding, four death.'

He then hummed the following distich, a favourite troll amongst the republican party at that period:-

The following distich is sufficient to show his malignancy, and to hold him up to execration:

My thoughts, as I read over the rubbish, were happily expressed by the following distich which I came to:-

"The following distich," he added, "should now become your motto: