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tion in tlie Latin language to the late earl, on his prema- 

 ture death at Abbeville, on the 4/A of November 1787, he 

 bewailed the event in the following clafsical strain to a 

 noble lord on the ']th of December following. 



'■'■ De obitu Dalhostii Comitis ad Abavillam in Gallli 

 '•' nuper moestifsime audivi. Fult inter nobiles doctus, inter 

 * doctos nobiiis j vir veteris prosapiae, necnon niultarum i- 

 " maginum. Si varice virtutes et amabiles mortis imiraturas 

 " gradum sistere potuifsent, dies fatalis adveniiset serius, 

 " nee tarn cito orbafset rempublicam consilio numerosam 

 " progeniem exemplo, viduam moeientem marito." 



On the death of Dr Samuel Johnson he transmitted to 

 jhe same noble lord, the following characteristic and 

 clafsical epitaph, which has been much admired while it^ 

 j£al author was unknown. 



M. S. 

 I Samuelis Johnsoni L L D. 



Viri subacti et firnii ingenii, 



In Uteris Anglia; ornamenti ; 



Cui non vita erepta, sed mors 



Donata efse videtur ; 



(Etsi sit et erit lucttiosa amicis, 



Matura forsan sibi, 



Sed acerba patriae, 



Gravis bonis omnibus :) 



Ne diutius videret Britanniam 



Vegtigalibus petulanter opprefsara, 



Ardentem invidia Senatuni, 



Sceleris netarii principes reos, , 



Civitatem earn denique 



In omni genere detormatam, 



In qua ipse florcntifsima 



Multum omnibus gloria prass itit. 



^Obiit anno aetatis septuagesimosexto, b'f. 

 If this (said the profefsor) is not approved of, it is at 

 least a pleasure to me to pay this last tribute to a clafsi- 

 cal man in clafsical language, such as he himself would 

 have approved of j and from Scotland too ! WAcre flattery 

 is out of the question. 



Fijherov), 22 December 1784. 

 VOX., xvi, II 3, • 



