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　　LETTER 614

　　CHARLES LAMB TO MRS. GEORGE DYER

　　Dec. 22nd, 1834.

　　Dear Mrs. Dyer,—I am very uneasy about a Book which I either have lost or left at your house on Thursday. It was the book I went out to fetch from Miss Buffam's, while the tripe was frying. It is called Phillip's Theatrum Poetarum; but it is an English book. I think I left it in the parlour. It is Mr. Cary's book, and I would not lose it for the world. Pray, if you find it, book it at the Swan, Snow Hill, by an Edmonton stage immediately, directed to Mr. Lamb, Church-street, Edmonton, or write to say you cannot find it. I am quite anxious about it. If it is lost, I shall never like tripe again.

　　With kindest love to Mr. Dyer and all,

　　Yours truly,

　　C. LAMB.

　　[In the life of H.F. Cary by his son we read: "He [Lamb] had borrowed of my father Phillips's Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum, which was returned by Lamb's friend, Mr. Moxon, with the leaf folded down at the account of Sir Philip Sydney." Mr. Cary acknowledged the receipt of the book by the following

　　LINES TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES LAMB

　　So should it be, my gentle friend;

　　Thy leaf last closed at Sydney's end.

　　Thou too, like Sydney, wouldst have given

　　The water, thirsting and near heaven;

　　Nay were it wine, fill'd to the brim,

　　Thou hadst look'd hard, but given, like him.

　　And art thou mingled then among

　　Those famous sons of ancient song?

　　And do they gather round, and praise

　　Thy relish Of their nobler lays?

　　Waxing in mirth to hear thee tell

　　With what strange mortals thou didst dwell!

　　At thy quaint sallies more delighted,

　　Than any's long among them lighted!

　　'Tis done: and thou hast join'd a crew,

　　To whom thy soul was justly due;

　　And yet I think, where'er thou be,

　　They'll scarcely love thee more than we.

　　This is the last letter of Charles Lamb, who tripped and fell in Church Street, Edmonton, on December 22, and died of erysipelas on December 27.

　　At the time of his death Lamb was very nearly sixty. His birthday was February 10.

　　Mary Lamb, with occasional lapses into sound health, survived him until May 20, 1847. At first she continued to live at Edmonton, but a few years later moved to the house of Mrs. Parsons, sister of her old nurse, Miss James, in St. John's Wood. I append three letters, two written and one inspired, by her, to Miss Jane Norris, one of the daughters of Randal Norris. Of the friends mentioned therein I might add that Edward Moxon lived until 1858; Mrs. Edward Moxon until 1891; James Kenney until 1849; Thomas Hood until 1845; and Barron Field until 1846.] The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6