VI. On Mrs. CORBET, Who died of a Cancer in her Breaft. HE ERE refts a Woman, good without pretence, Bleft with plain Reason, and with fober Sense: No Conquefts fhe, but o'er herself, defir'd, No Arts effay'd, but not to be admir'd. Paffion and Pride were to her Soul unknown, Convinc'd that Virtue only is our own. So unaffected, fo compos'd a mind; So firm, yet foft; fo ftrong, yet fo refin'd; Heav'n, as its pureft gold, by Tortures try'd; The Saint fuftain'd it, but the Woman dy'd. VII. On the Monument of the Honourable ROBERT DIGBY, and of his Sifter MARY, erected by their Father the LORD DIGBY, in the Church of Sherborne in Dorsetshire, 1727. G O! fair Example of untainted youth, Lover of peace, and friend of human kind : And thou, bleft Maid! attendant on his doom, Yet take thefe Tears, Mortality's relief, VIII. On Sir GODFREY KNELLER, In Westminster-Abbey, 1723. KNELLER, NELLER, by Heav'n and not a Mafter Whofe Art was Nature, and whofe Pictures Thought; Living, great Nature fear'd he might outvie IMITATIONS. 5 VER. 7. Imitated from the famous Epitaph on Raphael. Raphael, timuit, quo fofpite, vinci Rerum magna parens, et morienti, mori, IX. On General HENRY WITHERS, In Westminster-Abbey, 1729. HE ERE, WITHERS, reft! thou braveft, gentleft Thy Country's friend, but more of human kind. For thee the hardy Vet'ran drops a tear, X. On Mr. ELIJAH FENTON, At Eafthamfted in Berks, 1730. THIS HIS modeft Stone, what few vain Marbles can, May truly fay, Here lies an honest Man : A Poet, bleft beyond the Poet's fate, Whom Heav'n kept facred from the Proud and Foe to loud Praise, and Friend to learned Eafe, Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; Thank'd Heav'n that he had liv'd, and that he dy'd, |