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Under this ftone, or under this. fill,
Or under this turf, &c.

When a man is once buried, the queftion, under what he is buried, is eafily decided. He forgot that though he wrote the epitaph in a state of uncertainty, yet it could not be laid over him till his grave was made. Such is the folly of wit when it is ill employed.

The world has but little new; even this feems to have been borrowed from the following tunelefs lines:

Ludovici Areofti humantur offa

Sub hoc Marmore, vel fub hac humo, feu

Sub quicquid voluit benignus hæres
Sive hærede benignior comes, feu
Opportunius incidens Viator;

Nam feire haud potuit futura, fed nec
Tanti crat vacuum fibi cadaver

Ut

Ut utnam cuperet parare vivens,
Vivens ista tamen fibi paravit.
Quæ inferibi voluit fuo fepulchro
Olim fiquod haberet is fepulchrum.

Surely even the writer of these lines did not venture to expect that he should have ever had fuch an illuftrious imi

tator.

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