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SIR ISAAC NEWTON, 



Whom the God of nature made to comprehend his works. 



SIR FRANCIS BACON, LORD VERULAM. 



Who, by the strength and light of superior genius, rejecting vain speculation 

 and fallacious theory, taught to pursue truth, and improve philosophy by 

 the certain method of experiment. 



In the niche of a Pyramid is placed a Mercury, with these 

 words subscribed : 



Campos ducit ad Elysios. Leads to the Elysian Fields. 



And below this figure is fixed a square of black marble, 

 with the following lines : 



Hie manus ob patriam pugnando vulnera passi, 

 Quique pii vates, aut Phoebo digna locuti, 

 Inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes, 

 Quique sui memores alios fecere merendo. 



Here are the bands, who for their country bled, 

 And bards, whose pure and sacred verse is read : 

 Those who, by arts invented, life improv'd, 

 And by their merits, made their mem'ries lov'd. 



KING ALFRED. 



The mildest, justest, most beneficent of kings; who drove out the Danes, 

 secured the seas, protected learning, established juries, crushed corruption, 

 guarded liberty, and was the founder of the English constitution. 



EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES. 



The terror of Europe, the delight of England ; who preserved unaltered, in 

 the height of glory and fortune, his natural gentleness and modesty. 



QUEEN ELIZABETH, 



Who confounded the projects, and destroyed the power that threatened to 



