26 MEMOIRS OP 



ever endowed and adorned, left the world 

 at large no written teftimony of that im- 

 puted fuperiority. It is finely observed by 

 the charming Prior, 



" That the diftinguifh'd part of men, 

 By pencil, compafs, fword, or pen, 

 Should, in life's vifit leave their name, 

 In characters, which may proclaim 

 That they, with ardour, flrove to raife 

 At once their art, and country's praife; 

 And, in the working, took great care 

 That all was full, and round, and fair." 



The circumftances of Mr. Day's difpo- 

 lition, habits, and deiliny were fo peculiar, 

 as to juftify digreffion from the principal fub- 

 jedlof thefe pages. Their authorwould deem 

 it inexcufable to introduce any thing fabu- 

 lous ; to embellifh truth by the ilighteft co- 

 louring of fi cYion, even by exaggerating fingu- 

 larity, or heightening what is extraordinary ; 

 but when realities are of a nature to intereft 

 $ind to amufe in a collateral branch of the 



memoir, 



