768 THE HARVEIAN ORATION. 



Platone Animam mundi ; aut cum aliis Naturam naturantem ; vel 

 cum Ethnicis Saturnum aut Jovem ; vel potius, ut nos decet, 

 Creatorem ac patrem omnium quae in coelis et terris ; a quo 

 animalia eorumque origines dependent, cujusque nutu sive efFato 

 fiunt et generantur omnia.' (' De Generatione Animalium/ Ex. 54, 

 pp. 419, 420, ed. 1766; p. 402, ed. Willis.) 



I have detained you far too long ; but, feeling that my praise of 

 Harvey has been all too feeble, I am anxious, in ending, to employ 

 in honour of Harvey certain lines of singular beauty and force 

 which, though composed in commemoration not of him, but of 

 another famous Englishman, may nevertheless be applied to him 

 with a singular appropriateness : — 



'Remember all 

 He spoke among you, and the man who spoke ; 

 Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, 

 Nor paltered with Eternal God for power; 

 Who let the turbid streams of rumour flow- 

 Thro* either babbling world of high and low; 

 Whose life was work, whose language rife 

 With rugged maxims hewn from life; 

 Who never spoke against a foe. 



Whatever record leap to light, 

 He never shall be shamed.' 



