11 G DEATH OF BOYER. [1693. 



Augmented/ he grew Delirious, and remained so some Days. 

 We cou'd then do nothing for him, but apply to the Great 

 Physician of Body and Soul, which we had done all along. 

 Before this Struggle was over, we had the Satisfaction to 

 see our Dear Brother recover his Understanding, and give 

 us the most certain and most edifying Tokens of a sincere 

 Piepentance, and holy hope of his Salvation. Thus it con- 

 tinu'd with him^till the eighth of May 1G93, when he expir'd 

 in the 29th year of his Age, after three Weeks Sickness. 

 Such was the end of honest Isaac Boijcr, the eighth part of 

 the Kings and the Inhabitants of Bodrigo. And that you 

 may not, kind Reader, go so far as this ISew World without 

 seeing some Monument, Head if you think fit, the Epitaph 

 that I add here.^ 



" Beneatli these Immortal Palms, 



In the faithful Bosom of a Virgin Earth, 



Are piously deposited 



The Bones 



Of ISAAC BOYER, 



An honest and faithful Gascon^ descended from Adam, 



Of as Noble Blood as any of the Mortals his Brethren, 



1 In orig. : " & le transport s'etant fait au cerveau," omitted by 

 translator. 



2 In orig. : " Enfin il rendit son Ame a Dieu." 



3 This epitaph is printed in the original on a quarto sheet, in two 

 columns, surmounted by a strange device, in imitation or mockery, as 

 •we may suppose, of the heraldic ornaments which decorated the 

 pompous epitaphs on contemporary monuments of the 17th century. 

 The centre is a coat of arms, with the name " Boyer" under a fleur-de- 

 lys and a star or, on a field azure, between two cherubims proper on a 

 field or; surmounted by the name of Jehovah in Hebrew characters. On 

 either side are two medallions ; on one of which is represented the 

 adventurer's boat at sea, with the legend, ^'' Nous n'avons point icy decite 

 permanente," circumscribed. On the other side is the conventional 

 phoenix on its burning nest, with its circumscription, " i)a?is la mort 

 Vimmortaliter Above all is a scroll bearing the Latin words: ^'' Nascimur 

 pares ; pares mormur.'" The whole appearance of these fanciful designs 

 is in keeping with the fashion then in vogue, as displayed in the emblems 

 of Jacob Cats, of a few years' earlier date. 



