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An equestrian epistle in verse, to the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Jersey, To H. R. H. The Prince of Wales

occasioned by the publication of the correspondence between the Earl and Countess of Jersey, and the Rev. Dr. Randolph, upon the subject of some letters belonging to H. R. H. the Princess of Wales. Adorned with notes. By the author of the epistle to the Rev. Dr. Randolph [i.e. T. J. Mathias]
 

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Partem fusi monstrantur in omnem
Lugentes Campi, sic illos nomine dicunt.
Hic quos durus amor crudeli tabe peredit,
Secreti celant calles, et myrtea circum
Sylva tegit; curæ non ipsa in morte relinquunt:
His Phædram, Procrinque locis, mæstamque Eriphylen;
Inter quas Phœnissa recens a vulnere Dido,
Quam miserans longe Æneas miseratur euntem!

Virg: Æn: 6.


 

Mors, in the true classical sense, signifies a resignation or dismission from any station of importance or of honour, as well as a dismission from life itself.