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XIV.

On EDMUND D. of Buckingham,

Who died in the Nineteenth Year of his Age, 1735.

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F modeft Youth, with cool Reflection crown'd,

I modify Youth, cool

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 noify 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 laft Tribute of a Saint to Heav'n.

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Westminster-Abbey.

EROES, and KINGS! your distance keep:
In peace let one poor Poet fleep,

Who never flatter'd Folks like

you :

Let Horace blufh, and Virgil too.

Another, on the fame.

NDER this Marble, or under this Sill,

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

MEMOIRS

Of the Extraordinay

Life, Works, and Discoveries

OF

MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS.

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