EPITAPH ON Sir PALMES FAIRBONE's Tomb IN WESTMINSTER-AB BEY. Sacred to the immortal memory of Sir PALMES FAIRBONE, Knight, Governor of Tangier; in execution of which command, he was mortally wounded by a fhot from the Moors, then befieging the town, in the forty-fixth year of his age. October 24, 1680. E facred relics, which your marble keep, Here, undisturb'd by wars, in quiet fleep : Discharge the truft, which, when it was below, Fairbone's undaunted foul did undergo, And be the town's Palladium from the foe. Alive and dead these walls he will defend: Great actions great examples must attend. The Candian fiege his early valor knew, Where Turkish blood did his young hands imbrue. VOL. II. From thence returning with deferv'd applause, Nor general's death was e'er reveng'd fo well; To his lamented lofs for time to come Mr. UNDER MILTON's Picture, Before his PARADISE LOST. HREE Poets, in three diftant ages born, ΤΗ Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. ON THE MONU UMENT OF A FAIR MAIDEN LADY, Who dy'd at BATH, and is there interred. ELOW this marble monument is laid BE All that heav'n wants of this celestial maid. Preferve, O facred tomb, thy truft confign'd; The mold was made on purpose for the mind: And the wou'd lofe, if, at the latter day, Her limbs were form'd with fuch harmonious grace: Só faultlefs was the frame, as if the whole But only to refresh the former hint; And read her Maker in a fairer print. ; } So pious, as he had no time to spare For human thoughts, but was confin'd to pray'r. 'Twas wond'rous how she found an hour to pray. 3 EPITAPH Ο Ν Mrs. MARGARET PASTON, S Of BURNINGHAM in NORFOLK. O fair, fo young, fo innocent, fo sweet, Require at least an age in one to meet. In her they met; but long they could not stay, Now she is gone, the world is of a piece. |