THOUGH THOU HADSI MADE A GENERAL SURVEY
OP ALL THE BEST OF MEN'S BEST KNOWLEDGES,
AND KNEW SO MUCH AS EVER LEARNING KNEW;
YET DID IT MAKE THEE TRUST THYSELF THE LESS,
AND LESS PRESUME. AND YET WHEN BEING MOV'D
IN PRIVATE TALK TO SPEAK; THOU DIDST BEWKAY
HOW FULLY FRAUGHT THOU WERT WITHIN; AND PROVID
THAT THOU DIDST KNOW WHATEVER WIT COULD SAY.
WHICH SHOW'D THOU HADST NOT BOOKS AS MANY HAVE,
FOR OSTENTATION, BUT FOR USE; AND THAT
THY BOUNTEOUS MEMORY WAS SUCH AS GAVE
A LARGE REVENUE OF THE GOOD IT GAT.
WITNESS SO MANY VOLUMES, WHERETO THOU
HAST SET THY NOTES UNDER THY LEARNED HAND,
AND MARK'D THEM WITH THAT PRINT, AS WILL SHOW HOW
THE POINT OF THY CONCEIVING THOUGHTS DID STAND;
THAT NONE WOULD THINK, IP ALL THY LIFE HAD BEEN
TURN'D INTO LEISURE, THOU COULDST HAVE ATTAIN'D
40 MUCH OF TIME, TO HAVE PERUS'D AND SEEN
NO MANY YOLUMES THAT 50 MUCH CONTAIN D,"
DANIEL. Funeral Poem upon the Death of the late Noble
Earl of Devonshire.
"WELL-LANGUAGED DANIEL," as Browne called him in his "Britannia's Pastorals," was one of Southey's favourite poets. Let the above extract speak of the Author of " THE DOCTOR, &c."