1. c. 7. Sec. 13.)
Cap. III. Sect. 8. Sec. 6. p. 345.--"Brutus, ... when Furius came to cut his
throat, after his defeat by Anthony, he ran from it like a girl."--Valer.
Max. ix. 13. Sec. 3 Senec. _Epist_. 82.
J.E.B. MAYOR.
Marlborough College, May 13.
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UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
I am not aware that the following epigrams have ever been printed. I
transferred them to my note-book some time ago from the letters of Mr.
Martyn, a _litterateur_ of temporary fame in the first half of the
eighteenth century, addressed to Dr. Birch; which are among the Birch MSS.
in the British Museum. Mr. Martyn, if I remember right, gives them as not
his own. You may think them worth printing in your agreeable Miscellany:--
EPITAPH ON ARCHBISHOP POTTER.
"Alack and well-a-day
Potter himself is turned to clay."
Two epigrams on the coffins of Dr. Sacheverel and Sally Salisbury being
found together in the vault of St. Andrew's:--
"Lo! to one grave consigned, of rival fame,
A reverend Doctor and a wanton dame.
Well for the world both did to rest retire,
For each, while living, set mankind on fire."
"A fit companion for a high-church priest;
He non-resistance taught, and she profest.
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