To Lady FIREBRACE *, AT BURY ASSIZES. · Ar length must Suffolk's beauties shine in vain, This lady was Bridget, third daughter of Philip Bacon, Esq. of Ipswich, and relict of Philip Evers, Esq. of that town. She became the second wife of Sir Cordell Firebrace, the last Baronet of that name (to whom she brought a fortune of £.25,000), July 26, 1737. Being again left a widow in 1759, she was a third time married, April 7, 1762, to William Campbell, Esq. uncle to the present Duke of Argyle; and died July 3, 1782. To LYCE, AN ELDERLY LADY. YE Nymphs whom starry rays invest, Who shine, by lavish lovers drest, Engross not all the beams on high Which gild a lover's lays, But, as your sister of the sky, Her silver locks display the moon, Her brows, a cloudy show; Strip'd rainbows round her eyes are seen, Her teeth the night with darkness dyes, But some Zelinda, while I sing, Yet, spite of fair Zelinda's eye, ON THE DEATH OF Mr. ROBERT LEVET, A Practiser in Physic. CONDEMN'D to Hope's delusive mine, Well try'd through many a varying year, Officious, innocent, sincere, Of ev'ry friendless name the friend. Yet 1 Yet still he fills Affection's eye, When fainting nature call'd for aid, The pow'r of art without the show. In misery's darkest cavern known, No summons mock'd by chill delay, His virtues walk'd their narrow round, ་ Nor made a pause, nor left a void; And sure th' Eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd. The busy day-the peaceful night, His frame was firm-his powers were bright, Then with no fiery throbbing pain, And freed his soul the nearest way. EPITAPH ON CLAUDE PHILLIPS, AN ITINERANT MUSICIAN *. PHILLIPS! whose touch harmonious could remove * These lines are among Mrs. Williams's Miscellanies they are nevertheless recognized as Johnson's in a memorandum of his hand-writing, and were probably written at her request. Phillips was a travelling fiddler up and down Wales, and was greatly celebrated for his performance. EPITAPH I UM† IN THOMAM HANMER, BARONETTUM, Honorabilis admodum THOMAS HANMER, Baronettus, Wilhelmi Hanmer armigeri, è Peregrinâ Henrici · North De Mildenhall in Com. Suffolcia Baronetti sorore et hærede, Johannis Hanmer de Hanmer Baronetti At Hanmer church, in Flintshire. i Hæres ། Hæres patruelis Antiquo gentis suæ et titulo et patrimonio successit. Alteram Isabellam, honore à patre derivato, de Deindè celsissimi principis ducis de Grafton viduam Alteram Elizabetham Thomæ Foulkes de Barton in Filiam et hæredem. Inter humanitates studia felicitèr enutritus, Omnes liberalium artium disciplinas avidè arripuit, Quas morum suavitate haud leviter ornavit. Postquam excessit ex ephebis, Continuò inter populares suos famâ eminens, Et comitatûs sui legatus ad Parliamentum missus, Ad ardua regni negotia per annos prope triginta se accinxit: Cumque apud illos amplissimorum virorum ordines Sed probè perpensa dissertè expromere, Non minus integritatis quam eloquentiæ laude Æquè omnium, utcunque inter se alioqui dissidentium, Aunoque demum M. DCC.XIII. regnante Annâ, Communi Senatûs universi voce designatus est; Cum nullo tempore non difficile, Tum illo certè, negotiis |