fugit. E. L. W. I. F. H. G. ex Testamento H. M. P. mense Julii, 1700.

Edmundus Waller, cui hoc marmor sacrum est, Coleshill nascendi locum habuit; Cantabrigiam studendi, patrem Robertum, et ex Hamdenâ stirpe matrem. Cœpit vivere 3o Martii, A. D. 1605. Prima uxor Anna Edwardi Banks filia unica hæres; ex primâ bis pater factus, ex secundâ tredecies, cui et duo lustra superstes, obiit 21 Octob. A. D. 1687.

Which may be thus translated

Behold, traveller, the monument of Edmund Waller, who, though a poet of the highest fame, and distinguished among the first for ancestral wealth, dedicated himself to the muse and to his country. When not quite 18, he was sent as the representative in Parliament of the Borough of Amersham, and had a seat among those to whom was committed the consideration of the difficulties of the country. This was his course of life, nor was he in his age wanting to the burthen imposed on him, and he was all his life dear to the people, beloved by the nobles and admired by all.

Here is buried under the same tomb his wife Maria, of the family of the Bressy's, at once ennobled by her singular virtue and by her numerous offspring, together with her dearest husband Edmund Waller, whom thirteen times she made a joyful parent, with 5 sons and 8 daughters whom she gave to the world and then restored to heaven.

All that is mortal of Edmund Waller lies here, who among the poets of the age was universally acknowledged to be the first and that laurel crown which he deserved as a youth when even 80 years old he did not lay down.

How much his mother tongue is indebted to him would be believed from this that if the Muses were to cease to speak in the Greek and Latin language they would love the English. This marble was most piously erected to Edmund Waller and to Maria his second wife, his revered parents, with pious hand, by their

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son Edmund, to those who well deserved it. The last honours were bestowed by him who himself avoided them.

Edmund Waller to whom this monument is sacred was born at Coleshill, educated at Cambridge, his father was Robert, and his mother was of the Hampden family. He was born the 3d March 1605. His first wife was Ann the only daughter and heiress of Edward Banks. By his first wife he had two children · second, whom he survived 8 years and died 21 Oct. 1687.

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GREGORIES, BEACONSFIELD.

Intentum enim animum quasi arcum habebat, nec languescens succumbebat senectuti. CICERO.

For he had his mind bent like a bow, nor did it in weakness and langour yield to old age.

ABOUT half a mile distant from the town of Beaconsfield, on the left of the road to Pen, is Gregories, or, as it is sometimes called, Butler's Court, formerly the seat of Edmund Burke. The whole domain consists of about 600 acres, of which the great statesman held 160 in his own hands. A small park-like extent of ground surrounded the house, and the scenery, without being striking, is agreeable. Boswell informs us that "when Dr. Johnson first saw this fine place, he exclaimed, Non equidem invideo; miror magis, thereby signifying, either that he was occupied in admiring what he was glad to see, or, perhaps, considering the general lot of men of superior abilities, he wondered that Fortune, who is represented as blind, should, in this instance, have been so just."

This place is still adorned with fine trees, either single or in groups, and enriched with the view