Kirby, R. S. [Hrsg.]; Kirby, R. S. [Bearb.]: Kirby's Wonderful And Eccentric Museum; Or, Magazine Of Remarkable Characters: Including All The Curiosities Of Nature And Art, From The Remotest Period To The Present Time, Drawn from every authentic Source. Illustrated With One Hundred And Twenty-Four Engravings. Chiefly Taken from Rare And Curious Prints Or Original Drawings. Six Volumes (Vol. V.) (London: R.S. Kirby, 1820)

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THE FIRST CODICIL TO THE WILL OF NATHANIEL LLOYD, OF
TWICKENHAM, IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, ESQ.
What I am going to bequeath,
When this frail part submits to death ;
But still I hope the spark divine,
With its congenial stars shall shine; #
My good Executors fulfil, %
I pray ye, fairly, my last Will, >
With first and second Codicil; *
And first, I give to dear Lord Hinton,
At Tryford school, not at Winton,
One hundred guineas for a ring,
Or some such memorandum thing;
And truly, much I should have blundered,
Had I not given another hundred
To Vere, Earl Poulett’s second son,
Who dearly loves a little fun:
Unto my nephew, Robert Longden,
Of whom none says he ever has wrong done,
Tho’ Civil Law he loves to lash,
I give two hundred pounds in cash:
One hundred pounds to my niece Tuder,
(With loving eyes one Matthew view’d her),
And to her children, just among ’em
A hundred more, and not to wrong ’em,
In equal shares I freely give it,
Not doubting but they will receive it.
To Sally Crouch and Mary Lee,
If they with Lady Poulett be, z
Because they would the year did dwell,
In Twickenham House, and served full well,
When Lord and Lady both did stray
Over the hills and far away;