Well try'd through many a varying year,

See Levet to the

grave defcend,

Officious, innocent, fincere,

Of every friendless name the friend.

Yet ftill he fills affection's eye,
Obfcurely wife and coarsely kind;
Nor letter'd arrogance deny

Thy praise to merit unrefin'd.

When fainting nature call'd for aid,
And hovering death prepar'd the blow,
His vigorous remedy display'd

The

power of art without the show.

In mifery's darkest cavern known,
His useful care was ever nigh,
Where hopeless anguifh pour'd his groan,
And lonely want retir'd to die.
No fummons mock'd by chill delay,
No petty gain disdain'd by pride;
The modeft wants of every day
The toil of every day supply'd.

His virtues walk'd their narrow round,
Nor made a pause, nor left a void;
And fure th' Eternal Mafter found
The fingle talent well employ'd.

The busy day—the peaceful night,
Unfelt, uncounted, glided by;

His frame was firm-his powers were bright,

Tho' now his eightieth year was nigh.

Then with no fiery throbbing pain,

No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his foul the nearest way.

The pangs of guilty pow'r, and hapless love,
Reft here, diftreft by poverty no more,
Find here that calm thou gav'ft so oft before;
Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine,
Till angels wake thee with a note like thine.

* These lines are among Mrs. Williams's Mifcellanies; they are nevertheless recognized as Johnson's, in a memorandum of his handwriting, and were probably written at her request. Phillips was a travelling Fidler up and down Wales, and was greatly celebrated for his performance.

EPITAPH I UM

I N

THOMAM HANMER, BARONETTUM.

Honorabilis admodum THOMAS HANMER,
Baronettus,

Wilhelmi Hanmer armigeri è Peregrina Henrici
North

De Mildenhal in Com: Suffolcia Baronetti forore

et hærede.
Filius

Johannis Hanmer de Hanmer Baronetti
Hæres patruelis

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

Alteram Ifabellam, honore à patre derivato de
Arlington comitiffam

Deindè celciffimi principis ducis de Grafton viduam dotariam

Alteram Elizabetham Thomæ Folks de Barton in
Com. Suff. armigeri.
Filiam et hæredem

Inter humanitates ftudia felicitèr enutritus
Omnes liberalium artium disciplinas avidè arripuit,
Quas morum fuavitate haud leviter ornavit.

Pofte

Poftquam exceffit et ephebis

Continuo inter populares fuos fama eminens
Et comitatus fui legatus ad Parliamentum miffus
Ad ardua regni negotia per annos prope triginta
Si accinxit

Cumq; apud illos ampliffimorum virorum ordines
Solent nihil temerè effutire

Sed probe perpenfa differtè expromere
Orator gravis et preffus

Non minus integritatis quam eloquentiæ laude
commendatus

Æquè omnium utcunq; inter fe alioqui diffidentium
Aures atque animos attraxit

Annoque demum M.DCC.XIII. regnante Annâ
Feliciffima, florentiffimæque memoriæ regina
Ad prolocutoris cathedram

Communi fenatûs univerfi voce defignatus eft :
Quod munus

Cum nullo tempore non difficile

Tum illo certè negotiis

Et varus 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 incorrupta notus.

Ubi omnibus, quæ virum civimque bonum decent

officiis fatis feciffet,

Pau- O

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

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

Et bonis omnibus, quibus chariffimus vixit,
Defideratiffimus obiit.

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

THOU who furvey'st these walls with curious eye,
Paufe at this tomb where 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 thirft of knowledge, and with love of truth;
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 studious shade;
In life's first bloom his publick toils began,
At once commenc'd the fenator and man.

In business dext'rous, weighty in debate,
Thrice ten long years he labour'd for the state;

*This Paraphrafe is inferted in Mrs. Williams's Mifcellanies. The Latin is there faid to be written by Dr. Friend. Of the perfon whofe memory it celebrates, a copious account may be feen in the Appendix to the Supplement to the Biographia Britannica.

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