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From the Monody the following few lines are extracted :— 
You knew Linlceus ! ah who knew him not? 
Once, once the pride and treasure of these plains, 
The blithest, sweetest of arcadian swains. 
Eolus, that blustering god had oft with envy heard 
The praises justly given to young Linlceus, 
He oft had heard the soft melodious sounds 
Which from his lyre his dextrous fingers swept. 
He felt their magic power, and wept. 
And much his hated rival’s lyre he fear’d, 
No sooner therefore did he see the boat 
Then—a rude wind—upon his skiff he laid 
And thus avenged his blasted fame. 
Or how disturb the peace of such a pair, 
He best of men, she fairest of the fair,* 
More for their virtues than their rank rever’d, 
By nobles, vassals, artists, all belov’d, 
And e’en to royalty itself endear’d. 
Each son of genius on Britannia’s plains 
Laments the loss of young Linlceus’ strains. 
There is a portrait of him, with his sister Mary, by 
_ Gainsborough, at Knole in Kent, and another also by Gainsborough 
~ in the Dulwich Gallery. 
Mary married Richard Tickell, a political pamphleteer and a 
dramatist, who is said to have been born at Bath about 
1751.1 There is a portrait of him by Gainsborough. She 
died at the Hot Wells 27th July, 1787, aged 29, and was 
buried at Wells, “where she enjoyed happiness and poverty the 
first year of her marriage.”} There is a portrait of her by 
- Romney,§ and, as above, by Gainsborough at Knole, and another 
with her sister Elizabeth in the Dulwich Gallery, also by Gains- 
* His sister Elizabeth. t+ Murch, ‘‘ Bath Celebrities,” p. 317. 
t Rae, Vol. 2, p. 26. § Romney. By Sir Herb. Maxwell. 
