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Hæres patruelis

Antiquo gentis fuæ et titulo et patrimonio fucceffit. Duas uxores fortitus eft;

Alteram Ifabellam, honore à patre derivato, de Arlington comitiffam,

Deindè celfiffimi principis ducis de Grafton viduam dotariam:

Alteram Elizabetham Thomæ Foulkes de Barton in Com. Suff. armigeri

Filiam et hæredem.

Inter humanitates ftudia felicitèr enutritus, Omnes liberalium artium difciplinas avidè arripuit, Quas morum fuavitate haud leviter ornavit. Poftquam exceffit ex ephebis,

Continuò inter populares fuos famâ eminens,
Et comitatûs fui legatus ad Parliamentum miffus,
Ad ardua regni negotia per annos prope triginta
fe accinxit:

Cumque apud illos ampliffimorum virorum ordines
Solent nihil temerè effutire,
Sed probè perpenfa differtè expromere,
Orator gravis et preffus;

Non minus integritatis quam eloquentiæ laude
commendatus,

Æquè omnium, utcunque inter fe alioqui diffidentium,
Aures atque animos attraxit.

Annoque demum M.DCC.XIII. regnante Annâ,
Feliciffimæ florentiffimæque memoriæ regina,
Ad Prolocutoris cathedram

Communi Senatus univerfi voce defignatus eft:
Quod munus,

Cum nullo tempore non difficile,

Tum illo certè, negotiis

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Et variis et lubricis et implicatis difficillimum,
Cum dignitate fuftinuit.

Honores alios, et omnia quæ fibi in lucrum cederent

munera,

Sedulò detrectavit,

Ut rei totus inferviret publicæ ;
Jufti rectique tenax,

Et fide in patriam incorruptâ notus. Ubi omnibus, quæ viram civemque bonum decent, officiis fatisfeciffet,

Paulatim fe à publicis confiliis in otium recipiens, Inter literarum amoenitates,

Inter ante-actæ vitæ haud infuaves recordationes,
Inter amicorum convictus et amplexus,
Honorificè confenuit;

Et bonis omnibus, quibus chariffimus vixit,
Defideratiffimus obiit.

Hic, juxta cineres avi, fuos condi voluit, et curavit
Gulielmus Bunbury Bttus nepos et hæres.

PARAPHRASE of the above EPITAPH. By Dr. JOHNSON *.

THOU who survey'st these walls with curious eye, Pause at his tomb were HANMER'S afhes lie; His various worth through varied life attend, And learn his virtues while thou mourn'ft his end. His force of genius burn'd in early youth, With thirst of knowledge, and with love of truth;

*This Paraphrase is inserted in Mrs. Williams's Mifcellanies. The Latin is there faid to be written by Dr. Freind. Of the person whose memory it celebrates, a copious account may be feen in the Appendix to the Supplement to the Biographia Britannica.

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His learning, join'd with each endearing art,
Charm'd ev'ry ear, and gain'd on ev'ry heart.
Thus early wife, th' endanger'd realm to aid,
His country call'd him from the ftudious fhade;
In life's first bloom his publick toils began,
At once commenc'd the fenator and man.
In bufinefs dext'rous, weighty in debate,
Thrice ten long years he labour'd for the State;
In ev'ry fpeech perfuafive wisdom flow'd,
In ev'ry act refulgent virtue glow'd:
Sufpended faction ceas'd from rage and ftrife,
To hear his eloquence, and praise his life.
Refiftless merit fix'd the Senate's choice,
Who hail'd him Speaker with united voice.
Illustrious age! how bright thy glories fhone,

When HANMER fill'd the chair-and ANNE the

throne!

Then when dark arts obfcur'd each fierce debate, When mutual frauds perplex'd the maze of ftate, The moderator firmly mild appear'd

Beheld with love with veneration heard.

This task perform'd-he fought no gainful post,
Nor wifh'd to glitter at his country's coft;
Strict on the right he fix'd his fteadfast eye,
With temperate zeal and wife anxiety;
Nor e'er from Virtue's paths was lur'd afide,
To pluck the flow'rs of pleasure, or of pride.
Her gifts defpis'd, Corruption blufh'd and fled,
And Fame purfu'd him where Conviction led.

Age call'd, at length, his active mind to reft,
With honour fated, and with cares oppreft;
To letter'd eafe retir'd and honeft mirth,
To rural grandeur and domestic worth:

Delighted

Delighted ftill to please mankind, or mend,
The patriot's fire yet sparkled in the friend.
Calm Confcience, then, his former life survey'd,
And recollected toils endear'd the fhade,
Till Nature call'd him to the gen'ral doom,
And Virtue's forrow dignified his tomb.

To Mifs HICKMAN*, playing on the Spinnet.
BRIGHT Stella, form'd for universal reign,
Too well you know to keep the flaves you gain;
When in your eyes refiftless lightnings play,
Aw'd into love our conquer'd hearts obey,
And yield reluctant to defpotic fway:
But when your mufic foothes the raging pain,
We bid propitious Heav'n prolong your reign,
We blefs the tyrant, and we hug the chain.

When old Timotheus ftruck the vocal ftring,
Ambition's fury fir'd the Grecian king:
Unbounded projects lab'ring in his mind,
He pants for room in one poor world confin'd.
Thus wak'd to rage, by mufic's dreadful pow'r,
He bids the sword deftroy, the flame devour.
Had Stella's gentle touches mov'd the lyre,
Soon had the monarch felt a nobler fire;
No more delighted with destructive war,
Ambitious only now to please the fair;
Refign'd his thirst of empire to her charms,
And found a thousand worlds in Stella's arms.

*Thefe lines, which have been communicated by Dr. Turton, fon to Mrs. Turton, the Lady to whom they are addreffed by her maiden name of Hickman, must have been written at leaft as early as the year 1734, as that was the year of her marriage at how much earlier a period of Dr. Johnson's life they may have been written, is not known.

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PARAPHRASE of PROVERBS, Chap. VI. Verfes 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.

"Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard"

TURN on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes,
Obferve her labours, fluggard, and be wife:
No ftern command, no monitory voice,
Prescribes her duties, or directs her choice;
Yet, timely provident, fhe haftes away,
To fnatch the bleffings of the plenteon day;
When fruitful fummer loads the teeming plain,
She crops the harvest, and the ftores the grain.

How long fhall Sloth ufurp thy ufelefs hours,
Unnerve thy vigour, and enchain thy pow'rs;
While artful, fhades thy downy couch inclofe,
And foft folicitation courts repofe?

Amidst the drowsy charms of dull delight,
Year chafes year with unremitted flight,
Till want now following, fraudulent and flow,
Shall fpring to feize thee like an ambush'd foe.

HORACE, Lib. IV. Ode VII. tranflated. THE fnow, diffolv'd, no more is seen, The fields and woods, behold! are green; The changing year renews the plain, The rivers know their banks again; The fprightly nymph and naked grace The mazy dance together trace;

* In Mrs. Williams's Mifcellanies, but now printed from the original.in Dr. Johnfon's own hand-writing.

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