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REAT foul! for whom death will no longer stay, But fends in hafte to fnatch our blifs away. O cruel death! to thofe you take more kind, Than to the wretched mortals left behind! Here beauty, youth, and noble virtue shin'd; Free from the clouds of pride that shade the mind. Infpired verfe may on this marble live, But can no honour to thy afhes give.

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On HENRY DUNCH, Efq;

In Newington Church in Oxfordshire, 1686,

ERE lies the prop and glory of his race,

Who, that no time his memory may deface,
His grateful wife, under this speaking stone
His afhes hid, to make his merit known.
Sprung from an opulent and worthy line,
Whofe well-us'd fortune made their virtues fhine,
A rich example his fair life did give,
How others fhould with their relations live.
A pious fon, a husband, and a friend,
To neighbours too his bounty did extend
So far, that they lamented when he died,
As if all to him had been near allied.

His curious youth would men and manners know,
Which made him to the fouthern nations go.
Nearer the fun, though they more civil feem,
Revenge and luxury have their esteem;
Which well observing, he return'd with more
Value for England than he had before ;
Her true religion, and her statutes too,
He practifed not less than feek'd to know;

And the whole country griev'd for their ill fate,
To lofe fo good, so just a magiftrate.

To fhed a tear may readers be inclin'd
And pray for one he only left behind ;
Till the who does inherit his estate,
May virtue love like him, and vices hate..

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MR. WALLER'S MONUMENT,

In Beconsfield Church-yard in Buckinghamshire; Written by Mr. RYMER, late Hiftoriographer-royal.

ON THE WEST END.

EDMUNDI WALLER HIC JACET ID QUANTUM MORTI CESSIT; QUI INTER POETAS SUI TEMPORIS FACILE PRINCEPS, LAUREAM, QUAM MERUIT ADOLESCENS, OCTOGENARIUS HAUD ABDICAVIT. HUIC DEBET PATRIA LINGUA QUOD CREDAS, SI GRÆCE LATINEQUE INTERMITTERENT, MUSÆ LOQUI AMARENT ANGLICE.

ON THE SOUTH SIDE.

HEUS, VIATOR! TUMULATUM VIDES EDMUNDUM WALLER, QUI TANTI NOMINIS POETA, ET IDEM AVITIS OPIBUS, INTER PRIMOS SPECTABILIS, MUSIS SE DEDIT, ET PATRIÆ. NONDUM OCTODECENNALIS, INTER ARDUA REGNI TRACTANTES SEDEM HABUIT, A` BURGO DE AGMONDESHAM MISSUS. HIC VITÆ CURSUS; NEC ONERI DEFUIT SENEX; VIXITQUE SEMPER POPULO CHARUS, PRINCIPIBUS IN DELICIIS, ADMIRATIONI OMNIBUS. HIC CONDITUR TUMULO SUB EODEM RARA VIRTUTE ET MULTA PROLE NOBILIS UXOR, MARIA EX BRESSYORUM FAMILIA, CUM EDMUNDO WALLER, CONJUGE CHARISSIMO: QUEM TER ET DECIES LÆTUM FECIT PATREM, V FILIIS, FILIABUS VIII; QUOS MUNDO DEDIT, ET IN COELUM REDIIT.

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