IX. On General HENRY WITHERS, In Westminster Abbey, 1729. HERE, WITHERS, reft! thou braveft, gentleft mind, Thy Country's friend, but more of human-kind. For thee the hardy Veteran drops a tear, WITHERS, adieu! yet not with thee remove X. On Mr. ELIJAH FENTON, At Eafthamfted in Berks, 1730. T HIS modeft Stone, what few vain Marbles can, A Poet, bleft beyond the Poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great: Foe to loud Praise, and Friend to learned Eafe, Content with Science in the Vale of Peace, Calmly Calmly he look'd on either Life, and here OF F Manners gentle, of Affections mild; Unblam'd through Life, lamented in thy End. Another. ELL then! poor Gay lies under ground, WE So there's an end of honeft Jack: So little juftice here he found, 'Tis ten to one he'll ne'er come back. XII. Intended for Sir ISAAC NEWTON, In Westminster-Abbey. ISAACUS NEWTONUS: Quem Immortalem Teftantur Tempus, Natura, Cœlum : Hoc marmor fatetur. Nature and Nature's Laws lay hid in Night: XIII. On Dr. FRANCIS ATTERBURY, Bishop of Rochester. Who died in Exile at Paris, 1732. His only Daughter having expired in his arms, immediately after she arrived in France to see him.] DIALOGUE. SHE. Y ES, we have liv'd-one pang, and then we part! May Heaven, dear Father! now have all thy Heart. Yet ah! how once we lov'd, remember still, Till you are dust like me. HE HE. Dear Shade! I will: Then mix this duft with thine-O fpotlefs Ghoft! -He faid, and dy'd. XIV. On EDMOND Duke of BUCKINGHAM, Who died in the Nineteenth Year of his Age, 1735. F modeft Youth, with cool Reflection crown'd, And every opening Virtue blooming round, This weeping marble had not ask'd thy Tear, XV. For XV. For One who would not be buried in H Westminster-Abbey. EROES and KINGS! your distance keep; Another, on the fame. UNDER this Marble, or under this Sill, Or under this Turf, or e'en what they will; XVI. Lord CONINGSBY's EPITAPH *. H ERE lies Lord Coningsby-be civil; The reft God knows-fo does the Devil. *This Epitaph, originally written on Picus Miran dula, is applied to F. Chartres, and printed among the works of Swift. See Hawkefworth edition, vol. vi. S. On |