XIV. On EDMUND Duke of BUCKINGHAM, Who died in the Nineteenth Year of his Age, 1735. IF modeft Youth, with cool Reflection crown'd, (^. XV. For One who would not be buried in Westminster-Abbey. HEROES and KINGS! your distance keep ; Who never flatter'd Folks like you: Another, on the Same. UNDER this Marble, or under this Sill, Or under this Turf, or e'en what they will; Whatever an Heir, or a Friend in his stead, Or any good creature fhall lay o'er my l head, Lies one who ne'er car'd, and ftill cares not a pin What they said, or may fay of the Mortal within : But who, living and dying, ferene still and free, Trufts in GoD, that as well as he was, he shall be. [63] INTRODUCTION. IN the Reign of Queen ANNE (which, notwithstanding those happy Times which fucceeded, every Englishman may remember), thou may'ft poffibly, gentle Reader, have seen a certain venerable Person who frequented the outfide of the Palace of St. James's, and who, by the gravity of his Deportment and Habit, was generally taken for a decayed Gentleman of Spain. His ftature was tall, his vifage long, his complexion olive, his brows were black and even, his eyes hollow yet piercing, his nose inclined to aquiline, his beard neglected and mixed with grey: AH this contributed to fpread a folemn melancholy over his countenance. Pythagoras was not more filent, Pyrrho more motionlefs, nor Zeno more auftere. His wig was as black and fmooth as the plumes of a Raven, and hung as traight as the hair of a River God rifing from the water. His cloak fo completely covered his whole perfon, that whether or no he had any other clothes (much less any linen) under it, I fhall not fay; but his fword appeared a full yard behind him, and his manner of wearing it was fo ftiff, that it seemed grown to his Thigh. His whole figure was fo utterly unlike any. thing of this world, that it was not natural for any man to ask him a question without bleffing himself first. Those who never faw a Jefuit, took him for one, and others believed him fome High Prieft of the Jews. But under this macerated form was concealed a Mind replete with Science, burning with a zeal of benefit |