Meath smiles for the jointure, though gotten so late; The son laughs, that got the hard-gotten estate; And Cuffe* grins, for getting the Alicant plate. Here quiet they lie, in hopes to rise one day, VERSES ON I KNOW NOT WHAT. My latest tribute here I send, DR. SWIFT TO HIMSELF. ON SAINT CECILIA'S DAY. GRAVE Dean of St. Patrick's, how comes it to pass, That you, who know music no more than an ass, That you who so lately were writing of drapiers, Should lend your cathedral to players and scrapers? * John Cuffe, of Desart, Esq., married the general's eldest daughter.-F. To act such an opera once in a year, So offensive to every true Protestant ear, With trumpets, and fiddles, and organs, and singing, AN ANSWER TO A FRIEND'S QUESTION. THE furniture that best doth please The shelves on which my books I keep, EPIGRAM.* BEHOLD! a proof of Irish sense; When nothing's left that's worth defence, * The Dean, in his lunacy, had some intervals of sense; at which his guardians or physicians took him out for the air. On one of these days, when they came to the Park, Swift remarked a new building, which he had never seen, and asked what it was designed for? To which Dr. Kingsbury answered, "That, Mr. Dean, is the magazine for arms and powder for the security of the city."-"Oh! oh!" says the Dean, pulling out his pocket-book, "let me take an item of that. This is worth remarking:-‘My tablets,' as Hamlet says, 'my tablets-memory, put down that!'" Which produced the above lines, said to be the last he ever wrote. EPITAPH, INSCRIBED ON A MARBLE TABLET, IN BERKELEY CHURCH, H. S. E. CAROLUS Comes de BERKELEY, Vicecomes Dursley, Ex illo discas, Lector, quod, superstite patre, Fuit à sanctioribus consiliis et Regi GULIEL. et ANNÆ Reginæ, Comitatum civitatumque Glocest. et Brist. Dominus Locumtenens, Denique ad Turcarum primum, deinde ad Roman. Imperatorem Sed restat adhuc, præ quo sordescunt cætera, EPITAPH ON FREDERICK DUKE OF SCHOMBERG.* Hic infra situm est corpus FREDERICI DUCIS DE SCHOMBERG. ad BUDINDAM occisi, A.D. 1690. DECANUS et CAPITULUM maximopere etiam atque etiam petierunt, UT HÆREDES DUCIS monumentum Ubinam terrarum SCONBERGENSIS cineres delitescunt. "Plus potuit fama virtutis apud alienos, * The Duke was unhappily killed in crossing the river Boyne, July 1690, and was buried in St. Patrick's cathedral; where the dean and chapter erected a small monument to his honour, at their own expense.-N. †The words that Dr. Swift first concluded the epitaph with, were, "Saltem ut sciat viator indignabundus, quali in cellulâ tanti ductoris cineres delitescunt."-N. |