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The transitory breath of fame below;
More lasting rapture from his works shall rise,
While converts thank their poet in the skies.

83. By Robert Burns, on Robert Fergusson the Poet: born 1751;
died 1774.

No sculptur’d marble here, nor pompous lay!
No storied urn, nor animated bust!
This simple stone directs pale Scotia’s way
To pour her sorrows o’er the poet’s dust.

84. From Eton College.

The following is to be seen on an oblong brass plate, in Lupton’s Chapel,
Eton College:—

Ano: 1372. August 18 daye.
Under this stone lies Thomas Smith, late a fellow heare,
And of Cambridge, a Master of Arte of ye King Colledge theare.
He did depart from earthly life, the time above exprest,
Whose soule we hope dothe now remaine in Abram’s brest.

85. On Sir Henry Wotton.

In the same place (Eton) Sir Henry Wotton has the following curious
epitaph, in the Latin language, inscribed above his grave:—

Here lies the author of this sentence:
An itching for dispute is the scab of the church.
Seek his name elsewhere.

86. By Douglas Jerrold on Charles Knight.

After an evening of friendly talk with a party which included the late
Douglas Jerrold and Charles Knight, between whom a close friendship had
subsisted for many years, they walked homewards together. In the course