EPITAPH LADY FA ΟΝ ΤΗ Ε WHIT MORE. AIR, kind, and true, a treasure each alone, A wife, a mistress, and a friend in one, Reft in this tomb, rais'd at thy husband's coft, Here fadly fumming, what he had, and loft. Come, virgins, ere in equal bands ye join, Come first, and offer at her facred fhrine; Pray but for half the virtues of this wife, Compound for all the reft, with longer life; And wish your vows, like hers, may be return'd, So lov'd when living, and when dead fo mourn'd. EPITAPH ON Sir PALMES FAIRBONE's Tomb I N WESTMINSTER-ABBEY. Sacred to the immortal memory of Sir PALMES FAIRBONE, Knight, Governor of Tangier; in execution of which command, he was mortally wounded by a shot 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, YE 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. From thence returning with deferv'd applause, Nor general's death was e'er reveng'd fo well; His pious widow confecrates this tomb. UNDER Mr. MILTON's Picture, ΤΗ Before his PARADISE LOST. HREE Poets, in three diftant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The firft, in loftinefs of thought furpafs'd; The next, in majefty; in both the last. The force of nature cou'd no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two. ON THE MONUMENT OF A FAIR MAIDEN LADY, Who dy'd at BATH, and is there interred. B ELOW this marble monument is laid All that heav'n wants of this celeftial maid. Preferve, O facred tomb, thy truft confign'd; The mold was made on purpose for the mind: And she wou'd lofe, if, at the latter day, Her limbs were form'd with fuch harmonious grace: So faultlefs was the frame, as if the whole |