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EPITAPH III. ON JOHN DEALTRY, M. D.

IN THE CATHEDRAE OF YORK.

Here o'er the tomb, where Dealtry's ashes sleep,
See Health, in emblematic anguish weep!
She drops her faded wreath; “No more,” she cries,
“Let languid mortals, with beseeching eyes,
“Implore my feeble aid: it fail'd to save
“My own and Nature's guardian from the grave.”

This inscription alludes to the design of the sculpture, which is a figure of Health, with her ancient insignia, in alto relievo, dropping a chaplet on the side of a monumental urn.