WOLCOTT, or WOLCOT (John, "Peter Pindar," witty and scurrilous, satiric poet. "The most unsparing calumV niator of his age."-Sir Walter Scott), 1738-1819. "Give me back my youth," to Taylor who had asked him, "Is there anything I can do for you?”

Wolcott is well described by Gifford in these lines:

Come, then, all filth, all venom, as thou art,
Rage in thy eye, and rancour in thy heart;
Come with thy boasted arms, spite, malice, lies,
Smut, scandal, execrations, blasphemies.

WOLFE (James, a celebrated English officer, killed in the battle of Quebec), 1726-1759. "I die happy." On being told of the defeat of the French.

WOLLSTONECRAFT (Mary, afterwards Mrs. Godwin, English authoress), 1759-1797. I know what you are thinking of, but I have nothing to communicate on the subject of religion," to her husband who was endeavoring to tell her death was near and to sound her mind in the matter of a spiritual world.

WOLSEY (Thomas, known in history as Cardinal Wolsey), 1471-1530. "Master Kingston, farewell! My time draweth on fast. Forget not what I have said and charged you withal; for when I am dead ye shall, peradventure, understand my words better."-'d Aubigné's History of the Reformation.

He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;
Exceeding wise, fair spoken and persuading;
Lofty and sour to them that loved him not,

But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.

And though he was unsatisfied in getting,

(Which was a sin), yet in bestowing, madam,

He was most princely.-Shakspeare.

WOOD (Rev. John George, English naturalist, author of "Man and Beast Here and Hereafter "), 1827-1889. "Give me a large cup of tea."

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At six o'clock he complained of thirst, and asked for a cup of milk. Still his mind was perfectly clear, for, finding that he could no longer raise his head to drink, asked whether there happened to be an invalid's cup in the house, and, finding that there was not, suggested that a small milk-jug would answer the purpose instead. This was procured, and he drank his milk, asking immediately afterward for a large cup of tea, which he drank also. And almost immediately afterward he turned his head upon one side, and quietly passed away.

Theodore Wood.

WOODVILLE (William, English physician and author of a work on "Medical Botany "), 1752-1805. "I shall not live more than two days, therefore make haste," last recorded words said to a carpenter he had sent for to measure him for a coffin.

WOOLSTON (Thomas, English theologian), 1669-1733. "This is a struggle which all men must go through, and which I bear not only with patience, but with willingness."

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WOOLTON (John, Bishop of Exeter), 1535-1594. Bishop ought to die on his legs." He insisted upon standing up to die, as did also the Rev. Patrick Bronté.

WORDSWORTH (William, distinguished English poet), 1770-1850. "God bless you! Is that you, Dora?"

Mrs. Wordsworth, with a view of letting him know what the opinion of his medical advisers was concerning his case, said gently to him, "William, you are going to Dora!" More than twenty-four hours afterward one of his nieces came into the room, and was drawing aside the curtain of his chamber, and then, as if awakening from a quiet sleep, he said, "Is that you, Dora?"

Memoirs of Wordsworth, Vol. ii. p. 506.

On

WYATT (Sir Thomas, the younger), 1520–1554. the scaffold he said to the people: "Whereas it is said abroad that I should accuse my Lady Elizabeth's grace and my Lord Courtenay; it is not so, good people, for I assure you that neither they nor any other now yonder in bold endurance was privy of my rising a commotion before I began." Weston, his confessor, shouted, "Believe him not, good people! he confessed otherwise before the council." Wyatt answered: "That which I said then I said, but that which I say now is true." These were Wyatt's last words.

WYCHERLEY (William, author of "The Plaindealer," "The Country Wife," and several other comedies), 1640– v 1715. "Promise me you will never again marry an old man," said to his wife.

When he was over seventy years old he married a young woman, but he survived his marriage only eleven days.

XIMENES (J. A., Spanish theologian), 1719–1774. "This is death."

YANCEY (William Lowndes, American politician, secessionist and commissioner to Europe to secure recognition of the Southern Confederacy. He was called "The Fire-Eater "), 1815-1863. "Sarah," his wife's name.

YVART (J. A. Victor, called "The Arthur Young of France"), 1764-1831. "Nature, how lovely thou art!"

"I

ZANE (Giacomo, a Venetian poet), 1529-1560. should like to live." There is dispute about these words; some writers say his last words were: "I should not like to live."

ZENO, or ZENON (Greek philosopher and founder of the school of the Stoics), about B. C. 355-about B. C. 257. "Earth, dost thou demand me? I am ready." Last recorded words.

The occasion of the philosopher's death is related as follows: "One day, as he was coming out of his school, he ran against some object and broke his finger; this he considered as an intimation from the gods that he must soon die; and, immediately striking the ground with his hand, he said, 'Earth, dost thou demand me? I am ready.' Instead of seeking to have his finger healed, he deliberately strangled himself.

"He had taught publicly forty-eight years without intermission; and, reckoning from the time when he com

menced his studies under Crates, the Cynic, he had devoted himself to philosophy for sixty-eight years."

Fenelon.

ZIMMERMANN (Johann Georg von, eminent Swiss physician of the eighteenth century, and author of a famous essay on Solitude"), 1728-1795. “I am dying; leave

me alone."

He was completely deranged for some time before his death.

ZINZENDORF (Nicolaus Ludwig, Count and Lord of Zinzendorf and Pottendorf, founder of the Moravian Church, and the author of a number of beautiful hymns), 17001760. Around his bed more than a hundred members of the community gathered to receive his blessing, and hear his last council and encouragement. When he had spoken kindly to them all he said to his son-in-law: "Now, my dear son, I am going to the Saviour. I am ready; I am quite resigned to the will of my Lord. If He is no longer willing to make use of me here I am quite ready to go to Him, for there is nothing more in my way." His son-inlaw offered prayer, and as he closed with the petition, "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace," the great and holy man fell asleep in his Saviour.

ZWINGLE, or ZWINGLIUS (a Swiss Reformer who was killed at the battle of Cappel), 1484-1531. 66 Can this be considered a calamity? Well! they can, indeed, kill the body, but they are not able to kill the soul." ceiving the mortal wound.

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