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206 in a burlesque sense, be said to keep his ease sacred.

The blessing ascribed to the peer has no connection with his peerage: they might happen to any other man, whose ancestors were remembered, or whose posterity were likely to be regarded.

I know not whether this epitaph be worthy either of the writer or the man entombed.

Sincere, though prudent; constant, yet resign'd, Honour unchang'd, a principle protest, Fix'd to one side, but moderate to the rest: An honest courtier, yet a patriot too, Just to his prince, and to his country true. Fill'd with the sense of age, the fire of youth, A scorn of wrangling, yet a zeal for truth;  Rh