And some flow'rs, and some bays,
'Fore thy hearse to strew the ways,
Sent thee from the banks of Came,
Devoted to thy vertuous Name;

Whilst thou, bright saint, sitt'st high in glory,
Next her, much like thee in story,
That fair Syrian shepherdess,
Who, after years of barrenness,
The highly-favor'd Joseph bore,
To him that serv'd for her before;
And at her next birth, much like thee,
Through pangs fled to felicity,
Far within the bosom bright
Of blazing majesty and light,
There with thee new welcome, saint,
Like fortunes may her soul acquaint,
With thee there clad in radiant sheen,
No Marchioness, but now a Queen.

JOHN MILTON.

IN THE CATHEDRAL OF SIENNA,

Celebrated for its floor being inlaid with the history of the Old Testament, is the following singular Epitaph, probably placed there as a memento to an Italian Toby Philpot.

Wine gives life, it was death to me,

I could not behold the dawn of morning
In a sober state-Even my bones

Now thirst.-Stranger!

Sprinkle my grave with wine;

Empty the flaggons and come,—
Farewell, Drinkers!

IN NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD.

Heus, peripatetice!

Conde tibi tumulum, nec fide hæredis amori,

Epitaphiumque compara:

Mortuus est, nec emit libris hæc verba ducentis,

Woodgatus hic sepultus est.

The above was written on a wall in New College, Oxford.— Camden.

AT ST. MARY ARCHES, EXETER.

Here lyeth the body of Mr. Ferdinando Nicholls, who, upon the fourteenth of December, 1662, being the 64th year of his age, and the thirtieth of his ministry in this church, dyed in the face of the congregation, whilst the psalm was singing.

This Nicholls was a gentleman's son in Buckinghamshire, and bred at Oxford. Afterwards he entered into holy orders, and at length became minister of St. Mary Arches, in Exeter. He was one of the Assistants to the commissioners of Devonshire and the city of Exeter, in the year 1654, for the ejection of such as they then called scandalous, ignorant, and insufficient ministers and schoolmasters.

AT BECKINGTON, SOMERSETSHIRE.

Here lies, expecting the second coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the dead body of Samuel Daniel, Esquire, that excellent poet and historian, who was tutor to the Lady Anne Clifford in her youth; she that was daughter and heiress to George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland; who, in gratitude to him, erected this monument to his memory a long time after, when she was Countess Dowager of Pembroke, Dorset, and Montgomery. He died in October, 1619.

This writer was born of a wealthy family in Somersetshire; and, at seventeen years of age, went to Magdalen College, Oxford, but left that university without taking a degree. He succeeded Spenser as Poet Laureat.

IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

Tho. Thynne, of Longleate, in Com. Wilts, Esq. who was barbarously murdered on Sunday, the 12th of February,

1682.

This gentleman, having ten thousand pounds per annum left him by an uncle, was privately married to the rich heiress of Northumberland, a young lady, and widow to the Earl of Ogle. The noise of this lady's fortune, among many others, encouraged Count Coningsmark, a German lord, to attempt her.

However Mr. Thynne's marriage was managed, the lady, being displeased, thought fit to go over into Holland before it was consummated, or they had ever been bedded. Upon this a suit at law was intended, and Coningsmark thought upon this difference, if he could remove Thynne, he should bid fair for his prize; and, having sent a challenge, Thynne answered it, by sending six ruffians into France to kill him and his second, Captain Uratch; but they escaped by killing two of them, as the count said. However, if it were so, he basely and barbarously turned his own weapons upon him; for, on Sunday, the 12th of February, 1682, three men on horseback assaulted him in his own coach in Pall Mall, near the Haymarket, and one of them, by discharging a musquetoon into the coach, mortally wounded him, and made their escape. Coningsmark was taken at Gravesend, and tried; but, by foul play, as it was thought, cleared. The other three were executed. This was, by some, thought a just reward for Thynne's perfidy, in having, at the Duke of Monmouth's request, debauched a young lady of character, and basely deserted her whence came the saying, "That he had escaped this, if he had either married the lady he had lain with, or lain with the lady he had married."

AT SEVENOAKS, IN KENT.

P. M. viri ornatissimi Thomæ Farnabii Armigeri, causæ olim Regiæ, reique publicæ sed literariæ vindicis acerrimi. Obiit 12 Junii, 1647.

Vatibus his sacris qui lux Farnabius olim,

Vate carens Saxo nunc sine luce jacet.

Thomas Farnabie, the most noted schoolmaster of his time, son of Thomas Farnabie, of London, carpenter, son of Farnabie, sometime mayor of Truro, in Cornwall, was born in London, about 1575, became a student in Merton College, Oxford, in the beginning of 1590; at which time, being a youth of great hope, he was entertained by Mr. Thomas French, a learned fellow of that house, who made him his postmaster, and so, consequently, his servitor, it being the fashion then for postmasters to serve those fellows from whom they received their places. But this youth being very wild, though of pregnant parts, made no long stay there; for, being enticed to forsake his religion and country, he left the college very abruptly, went into Spain, and was for some time educated there in a certain college belonging to the Jesuits. At length, being weary of their severe discipline, he found a way to leave them; and then, being minded to take a ramble, went with Sir Francis

Drake and Sir John Hawkins in their last voyage, 1595. Mr. Wood hints at his being afterwards a soldier in the Low Countries. However that may be, on coming to England, he taught school at several places with great success. He suffered a great deal of imprisonment, &c., on being suspected to wish well to the king, and died at last at Sevenoaks, where he lies buried. He published, with notes, Juvenal, Persius, Senecca, Martial, Lucan, Virgil, Terence, and Ovid, with many other school books.

AT CHARLTON KINGS, NEAR CHELTENHAM.
To preserve from immediate oblivion
Neither honors nor riches,
The frail inheritance of uncertain life,
But that property

Which benefits the possessor
To all eternity:

A grateful master placed this stone over the remains of
(Alas! how rare a character)
A Faithful Servant,

THOMAS BALLINGER,

Whose soul quitted its earthly mansion on the 22d day of August, 1789;

After giving life to it nearly 47 years.

Tho' o'er his humble grave no costly bust,
Or sculptur'd marble, points to titled dust;
An honest Man, the noblest work of GOD,
Has left his cares beneath this verdant sod.

AT LONG DITTON, SURRY.

ON A MUCH-RESPECTED SERVANT.
In the vault beneath are laid

The Remains of Mrs Elizabeth Harrison, Widow; She died August the 18th, 1806, aged 70 years. Any attempt to describe her virtues on this marble would wrong her memory: but it may record the affection and respect of the family which experienced her care and integrity for the last thirty years of her life, and beheld her serenity in the hour of death. "Her witness is in Heaven, and her record on High." T. STREATField.

AT KINGSTON-UPON-HULL.

Near this place

Lyeth the body of Andrew Marvell, Esq.,
A man so endow'd by nature,

So improv'd by education, study, and travel,
So consummated by experience,

That joining the most peculiar graces of wit and learning
With a singular penetration and strength of judgment,
And exercising all these
In the whole course of his life,

With unalterable steadiness to the ways of virtue;
He became the ornament
And example of the age.
Belov'd by good men, fear'd by bad,
admired by all:

Tho' imitated, alas!
By few,

And scarce parallel'd by any.

But a tombstone can neither contain his character,
Nor is marble necessary to transmit it to posterity:
"Tis engraved on the minds of his generation,
And will be always legible in his inimitable

Writings.
Nevertheless,

He having serv'd near twenty years
Successively in Parliament,

And that with such
Wisdom, integrity, dexterity, and courage,
As became a true patriot,
The town of Kingston-upon-Hull,

From whence he was constantly deputed to that assembly,
Lamenting in his death the public loss,
have erected

This monument of grief and gratitude, 1688.

He dy'd in the 58th year of his age,

On the 6th day of August, 1678.