XIV.

ON EDMUND DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM,

WHO DIED IN THE NINETEENTH YEAR OF HIS AGE, 1735.

I'
Ir modeft Youth, with cool Reflection crown'd,

And ev'ry op'ning Virtue blooming round,
Could fave a Parent's jufteft Pride from fate,
Or add one Patriot to a finking ftate;
This weeping marble had not afk'd thy Tear,
Or fadly told, how many Hopes lie here!
The living Virtue now had fhone approv❜d,
The Senate heard him, and his Country lov'd.
Yet fofter Honours, and less noisy Fame.
Attend the fhade of gentle BUCKINGHAM:
In whom a Race, for Courage fam'd and Art,
Ends in the milder Merit of the Heart ;·
And Chiefs or Sages long to Britain giv’n,
Pays the last Tribute of a Saint to Heav'n.

"THIS epitaph," fays Johnson, " is preferred by Dr. Warburton to the reft; but I know not for what reafon. To crown with reflection, is furely a mode of speech approaching to nonfenfe. Opening virtues, blooming round, is fomething like tautology; the fix following lines are poor and profaic."

XV.

FOR ONE WHO WOULD NOT BE BURIED IN WESTMINSTER-ABBEY.

HE

EROES and KINGS! your distance keep:
In peace let one poor Poet fleep,
Who never flatter'd Folks like you :
Let Horace blush, and Virgil too.

VER. 4. Let Horace]

ANOTHER, ON THE SAME.

UNDER

NDER this Marble, or under this Sill, Or under this Turf, or e'en what they will; Whatever an Heir, or a Friend in his stead, Or any good creature fhall lay o'er my head, Lies one who ne'er car'd, and ftill cares not a pin What they faid, or may fay, of the mortal within : But, who living and dying, ferene ftill and free, Trufts in GoD, that as well as he was, he fhall be.

NOTES.

"Whose verse adorn'd a tyrant's crimes;
Who faw majestic Rome betray'd,
And lent th' imperial ruffian aid."

AKENSIDE'S Odes, p. 280. 4to,

END OF THE SECOND VOLUME.