335 ; 
€ourteen years, fo much weakened, and 
any health fo much impaired, that within 
thefe four months T have had three fits of 
Gllnefs ; of the Jaft of which I am not yet 
fully recovered. Now thefe as well as 
other accidents have caufed to me more 
than ordinary expences this laft year, and 
made me (receiving nothing of her ma-. 
jefly’s penfion in twelve months) run into 
<ebts, amounting to fourfcore and odd 
pounds. Of thefe T have paid indeed lat 
sveek a partout of thelaft Michaelmas quar- 
‘er*s penfion, which a friend_received for me 
at Whitehall; but fince I owe ftill about 
threeicore pounds (which debt makes me 
ander thofe frequent monitions ct mor- 
vality very uneafy, and afhamed to fee 
fome of my creditors); and, fince the phy- 
sician thinks it abfolutely neceflary for the 
recovery of my health, that I fhould go 
without any delay to the Tunbridge 
Wells, which journey will occafion {tril 
amore expences ; I humbly beg ‘your lord- 
‘hip, that you would be plealed to order 
the payment of the three laft quarters, in 
all 75 pounds, now to be made to me ei- 
ther by Mr. Godfrey, at Mr.‘Compton’s 
office, where I receive my penfion, or at 
Original Poetry: 
the Exchequer; which afterwards, when 
the penfion money is paid into the faid 
office, may deduct this fum advanced unto 
me, and I may pay then to Mr. Godfrey 
and his clerk their dues. I hope after two 
or three days.to go abroad to the other 
part of the town, and will make then boid 
to wait either upon your lordfhip for an 
anfwer to this my humble requeft, or up- 
on my Lord Harley; of whom, befides, £ 
intend to hear what day he will be pleafed, 
together with my lord Duplin, to take a 
view of the Alexandrian manufcript, which 
I have copied out entirely fome time age, 
but cannot give the remainder to the prefs, 
for reafons which I will not trouble your 
lordthip with at prefent. - 
I recommend your lordthip to the grace 
of Almighty God, heartily wifhing that 
as he has delivered and exdited you tp 
the highet degree of honour, fo he may 
fatisfy you with a leng life, and at laft 
fhew you his fatisfa@ion. I remain witk 
the moft profound refpett, My Lord, 
Your Lordthip’s moft humble Serv‘, 
Joun Eenestr GRABE 
In St. Paul’s Ch. Yard, ‘ 
‘Auguft 225 1711. 
ORIGINAL POETRY. 
TO THE MEMORY of the /afe's1R ROBERT 
CHAMBERS. 
HALL the fad Mufe that ever loves to pay 
‘~ To buried worth the tributary lay, 
For Chiefs and Patriots drops the pious tear, 
Forget to ftrew one wreath o’er Chambers’ 
bier? 
“The Sage, who late o’er India’s Jarge domain 
Diffus’d the bleflings of Britannia’s reign; 
The {word of Juftice fway"d with equal hand, 
And fhamed corruption in a guilty land! 
Nor this his only praife—his vigorous mind, 
‘By learning ftrengthen’d, and by tafte refin’d, 
Grafp'd all the wide extent of Eaftern lore, 
And trodthe path where Jones had led before, 
Such the fair trophies of his public fame 
-Grow round the tomb; and gather e’er his 
name+ 
@he meed of honour crown’d his ufeful teil, 
A Nation’s bounty, and a Monarch’s fmile. 
Bot thofe mild virtues that with fofter ray 
Shed a new iuftre oer life’s clofing day, 
That teach with meekeft patience to endure 
Slow-creeping age, and ills that know no 
cure, 
How thofe were his tothe laf Heeting breath, 
Sooth’d ew ry pang, and cheer’d the bed of 
death, i 
Af the fad train, who, as his afhes mov’d, 
Gave Naiure’s tribute tothe friend they lov’d, 
—Sweet were thofe forrows {if the parted 
fhade ' 
Look’d confcious on) by faithful friendfhip 
paid. 
Yet fweeter ftill than all his country gave, 
Or our weak tears that fall upon his grave, 
“That general voice that from the farthet 
fhore 
Of India’s limits fhall ‘his lofs deplore: 
Wafted to heav’n, ler praife, her grief, fhall 
rife 
His pureft incenfe, nobleft obfequies ! 
ee 
‘Gratior et pulchro veniens incorpore Virtus. Virg. 
Ifove lovely Virtue in a lovely forme 
W AAT is beauty ? ’tisa flow’r, 
Tranfient as the pafling fhow’r, 
As the dew-drop of the morn 
Glift’ning on the tender thorn: 
Tis the rainbow of the fy, 
Deck’d in tints of fancied dye 5 ! 
Tis the glow-worm’s fading liglhit 
Ouickly ftealing from the-fight. 
See the rofe with crimfon cheek, 
And the lily chafte and meek; 
See the bloffoms of the year, 
“They rife, they reign, then difappear, @ 
{Jely %, 
