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 * Spem in illo repoſitam
 * Nunquam fefellerit,
 * Huad raro ſuperavit.
 * Poſt longum honorum Curſum
 * Brevi Temporis ſpatio confectum,

Cum Naturæ parvæ Fama ſatis vixerat, Animam ad altiora aſpirantem placide efflavit.

On the right hand is a particular account of all his employments abroad.

As a ſpecimen of Mr. Stepney's poetry, we ſhall quote the following lines on the Nature of Dreams, At dead of night imperial reaſon ſleeps, And fancy with her train looſe revels keeps: Then airy phantoms a mixt ſcene diſplay, Of what we heard, or ſaw, or wiſh’d by day; For memory thoſe images retains Which paſſion form’d, and ſtill the ſtrongeſt reigns. Huntſmen