Cometarum Semitas, Occanique æftus, Radiorum Lucis diffimilitudines, Colorumque inde nafcentium Proprietates, Quas nemo ante Sufpicatus erat, perveftigavit. Nature, Antiquitatis, S. Scripturæ, Sedulus, Sagax, fidus Interpres, Dei O. M. Majeftatem Philofophia aperuit, Evangelii fimplicitatem moribus expreffit. Sibi gratulentur Mortales, Tale tantumque excitiffe HUMANI GENERIS DECUS. Nat XXV. DEC. A.D. M.DCLII. Obiit MAR. XX. M.DCCXXVI. The following beautiful Epitaph was offer'd by a Poet, who cenfur'd the Latin Infcription above, as entering into too great a detail. Born 25 Dec. 1642. Dead 20 Mar. 1726. Sir ISAAC NEWTON. [fear, More than his Name were lefs-"Twou'd feem to He, who increas'd Heav'ns Fame, cou'd want it bere; Yet-when the Suns he lighted up, shall fade, And all the Worlds he found, are first decay'd; Then void and wafte Eternity shall lie: And Time, and Newton's Name, together die! The following admirable one was writ by Mr. Pope. ISAACUS NEWTONIUS Quem immortalem Teftantur; Tempus, Natura, Cœlum ; Mortalem Hoc Marmor fatetur. All Nature, and its Laws lay bid in Night; God faid, let Newton be, and all was Light. Another Epitaph by that excellent Genius Dean Swift, being very remarkable, we have :thought 3 thought proper to infert it. "Tis plac'd over the Vault where the Body of that great General Duke Schomberg lies. 1 Hic infra Situm eft corpus Ad Bubindam Decanus & Capitulum, maximopere etiam atq; etiam petierunt, ut Hæredes Ducis in Memoriam Parentis, Monumentum quantumvis Exile, erigi curarent. Sed poftquam, per Epiftolas, per Amicos diu ac fæpe orando nil profecêre, hunc Lapidem, indignabundi pofuerunt, Saltem ut Scias hofpes quantilla in Celluta, tanti Ductoris Cineres, in Opprobrium Hæredum, delitefcunt. Plus valuit Virtutis Fama apud alienos quam Sanguinis proximitas apud fuos. A. D. 1731. Tranflated thus, Here underneath lieth the Body of Frederick Duke of Schomberg, who was flain at the Boyn in the Year 1690. The Dean and Chapter of St. Patrick did most earneftly over and over again request, that the Heirs of the Duke wou'd be pleas'd to erect a Monument, however plain and fmall, to his Memory; but when by long and frequent Solicitations, both by Letters and by Friends, they found nothing cou'd be obtain'd, grieved for the Indignity offered to the Memory of fo great a Man,they fix'd up this Stone, that thou, O Stranger, mighteft know in how poor a Cell the Ashes of fo great a General lie neglected, to the Reproach of his Heirs. So much cou'd the Admiration of his Virtues avail with Strangers, more than the nearest Ties of Blood cou'd with his own Relations. A. D. 1731. Prefent State OF THE REPUBLICK O F LETTERS. For May, 1731. VOL. VII. -Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quæ ferrum valet, exfors ipfa fecandi. Horat. 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