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203. On Sir Isaac Newton.

The following was intended for Newton’s monument:—

Nature and nature’s law lay hid in night;
God said, Let Newton be—and all was light.

The epitaph on Sir Isaac, however, runs as follows:—

Isaacum Newton
Quem immortalem
Testantur Tempus, Natura, Cœlum,
Mortalum hoc marmor
Fatetur.
(This marble acknowledges Isaac Newton mortal
whom time, nature, and heaven prove immortal.)

204. On Pope Adrian.

His Holiness wrote the following sad epitaph for himself:—

Adrianus Papa VI, hic situs est
Qui nihil sibi infelicius
In vita
Quam quod imperaret
Duxit

Which may be rendered in English thus:—

Pope Adrian VI. lies here, who experienced nothing more unhappy in
life than that he commanded.

205. By Pope, on Mrs. Corbett. This lady died of cancer in the
breast:—

Here rests a woman, good without pretence,
Blest with plain reason and with sober sense.