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HERE

ERE continueth to rot

The body of FRANCIS CHARTRES; Who, with an INFLEXIBLE CONSTANCY and INIMITABLE UNIFORMITY of life,

PERSISTED,

In fpite 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 second.

Nor was he more fingular in the undeviating pravity of his manners, than fuccessful in accumulating WEALTH:

For, without TRADE OF PROFESSION,
Without TRUST of PUBLICK MONEY,
And without BRIBE-WORTHY SERVICE,
He acquired, or more properly created,

A MINISTERIAL ESTATE.

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;

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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 WEALTH in the fight of GOD, by his bestowing it on the most UNWORTHY of ALL MORTALS.

*Joannes jacet hic Mirandula ----cætera norunt Et Tagus et Ganges ---- forfan et Antipodes.

HERE

Apply'd to F. C.

ERE Francis Chartres lies-- be civil! The reft God knows---perhaps the devil.

*EPIGRAM.

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.

* ANOTHER.

U

You beat your pate, and fancy wit

γου

will come :

Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.

* EPITAPH of By-Words.

HE

ERE 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 bet

ter fun:

For

For the dame, by her skill in affairs aftronomical,

Imagin'd, to live in the clouds was but comical.

In this world fhe defpis'd ev'ry foul she met here ;

And now fhe's in t'other, fhe thinks it

but queer.

EPIGR A M.

On feeing a worthy prelate go out of church in the time of divine fervice to wait on his grace the D. of D----.

ORD Pam in the church (cou'd you think it?) kneel'd down;

When told the lieutenant was just come to town,

His fation defpifing, unaw'd by the place, He flies from his God to attend on his

grace:

To the court it was fitter to pay his devo

tion,

Since God had no hand in his lordship's

promotion.

* EPIGRAM

S

IR, I admit your genʼral rule,
That ev'ry poet is a fool :

But you yourself may ferve to show it,
That ev'ry fool is not a poet.

* EPITAPH.

ELL then, poor G---- lies under

WELL

WE ground!

So there's an end of honeft fack. So little juftice here he found,

"Tis ten to one he'll ne'er come back.

* EPIGRAM.

On the Toafts of the Kit-Kat Club.

Anno 1716.

Hence deathlefs kit-cat took its name,
Few criticks can unriddle ;

W Hence deathlefs

Some fay from pastry-cook it came,

And fome from cat and fiddle.
From no trim beaux its name it boasts,
Grey statesmen, or green wits;

But from this pell-mell pack of toasts
Of old cats and young kits.

TO

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