Be ftudious well to imitate My portly motion, mein, and gate; I'll take you to fome friends of mine, go We fcorn, for want of talk, to jabber Nor are we ftudious to enquire, Knock'd down the boy, the lanthorn broke, EPITAPH HERE continueth to rot The body of FRANCIS CHARTRES; Who, with an INFLEXIBLE CONSTANCY and INIMITABLE UNIFORMITY of life, In spite of AGE and INFIRMITIES, In the practice of EVERY HUMAN VICE, Excepting PRODIGALITY and HYPOCRISY: His infatiable AVARICE exempted him from the first, His matchlefs IMPUDENCE from the fecond. Nor was he more fingular in the undeviating pravity of his manners, than fuccefsful in accumulating WEALTH: For, without TRADE OF PROFESSION, He was the only perfon of his time Who cou'd CHEAT without the mask of HONESTY, Retain his primeval MEANNESS When poffefs'd of TEN THOUSAND a year; S 4 And, And, having daily deferv'd the GIBBET for what he did, Was at laft condemn'd to it for what he could not do. O indignant reader ! Think not his life useless to mankind! PROVIDENCE conniv'd at his execrable defigns, To give to after-ages a confpicuous PROOF and EXAMPLE Of how small eftimation is EXORBITANT Joannes jacet hic Mirandula----cætera norunt Et Tagus et Ganges----forfan et Antipodes. Apply'd to F. C. PET ETER complains, that God has given To his poor babe a life fo fhort: Confider, Peter, he's in heaven; 'Tis good to have a friend at court. γου ANOTHER. OU beat your pate, and fancy wit will come: Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. * EPITAPH of By-Words. HERE lies a round woman, who thought mighty odd Ev'ry word the e'er heard in this church about God. To convince her of God the good dean did endeavour; But ftill in her heart fhe held nature more clever. Though he talk'd much of virtue, her head always run Upon fomething or other fhe found better fun : For |