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His Soul 



Is gone Triumphantly 



Into the Palace of Immortality. 



***** 



His few and evil Days 



Were not at most above 



Ten Thousand Six Hundred ; 



And 



That in which he took his leave of the World, 



Was the Eighth of May, in the Year of our Redemption, 



MDCXCIII. 



AVhosoever thou art, Passenger, that reads this, 



Remember 



Thou must die in a little while, 



And 



Improve thy Time." 



A » n. 



Neither our Sorrow for the loss of a dear and useful 

 Friend, nor the bad Success of our first Enterprize hinder'd 

 us from thinking of leaving the Island. These young Men 

 had, as Horace says, Hearts of Oak and Brass,^ which made 

 them freely expose their Lives in the weakest of all Boats, 

 and rashly to defie the fury of the Winds. They persisted 

 therefore obstinately in their first Eesolution, and added to 

 the Fundamental Reasons alledg'd in the beginning, that 

 they wou'd benefit themselves by the Misfortune that had 

 happened to them, and take better measure for the future. 

 They said they wou'd strengthen the Bark in Repairing it, 

 that they wou'd lay some Buoys, or some other Tokens in 

 their way to direct them in this Case, and wou'd depart when 

 the Tides were highest, that they might not run the Risk of 

 touching the Shelves, without spending time in seeking after 



1 " Illi robur et ses triplex 



Circa pectus erat, qui fragilem truci 

 Commisit pelago ratem 



Primus, nee timuit prsecipitem Africum 

 Decertantem Aquilonibus, 



Nee tristes Ilyades, nee rabiem Noti." 



(Horace, Cunnimim, lib. i, iii, ad VirfjUlum.) 



