XORATA boni tribuerunt munera Divi,
Patronique novus tempora cingit honos.
Concedas hilaris repetitum Musa laborem,
Et notum celebres, & mihi dulce decus.
O fi te canerem, præful venerabilis, O fi
Fiftula cum titulis crefceret aucta tuis,
Eque turba tibi non cederet ima clientum,
Cederet ac numeris optima Mufa meis.
Hoc tamen ut meditor, mihi quid nifi vota fuperfunt?
Imbelles humeros nobile laffat onus.
Ergo minor virtus celebretur, dum tibi præful
Quod laudem fuperes gloria major erit.
CUM virtutes tuas unufquifque collaudet & honores gratuletur, noftræ V. R. audaciæ ignofcat tua benignitas, fi minimâ pollens eloquentiâ, ardentiffimo tamen ftudio accenfus, ad communem populi chorum adjungens vocem, cum virum optimum tum benigniffimum celebret patronum, qui, tuis maximè devinctus beneficiis, fummoperè conatur meritò vocari Favoris tui ftudiofiffimus,
UM tingit Siculus folis cœlique meatus,
Aftra polofque tuos quos fibi condit habet.
Nil facit inftantis mortis bellique tumultus ;
Ufque fed egregium fedulus urget opus.
Non vacat exiguæ curas impendere vitæ ;
Sat fibi curarum Conditor orbis habet,
IN COMITIS EXONIENSIS CRISTAM,
Tritici Fafcem Leonibus fuftentatum. 1689.
Lemma, "Suftentare et Debellare.”
UM tibi dat fortes Cybele veneranda leones,
Flavaque collectas addit Eleufis opes:
Invidiâ major, victoque potentior ævo,
I decus, I noftra Ceciliana domus.
Sparge inopi fruges, & pelle leonibus hoftem;
Copia quid valet hinc, quid timor inde, refer.
Pollens muneribus belli vel pacis, habes, quo
Atque homines fuperes, atque imitêre Deos.
M. S. CAROLI MONTAGUE,
Honorabilis Georgii de Horton in agro Northantonienfi
Filius natu fextus,
Henrici Comitis de Manchefter nepos,
Scholie Regie Weftmonafterienfis Alumnus,
Collegii S. S. Trinitatis Cantabrigienfis Socius.
Literas humaniores feliciter excoluit,
Et in difpari laudis genere clarus,
Inter Poetas pariter ac Oratores Anglos excelluit :
Magna ingenii indole ;
Bonarumque artium difciplinis inftructus,
Ex Academiæ umbraculis
In confpectum hominum prodiit,
Literatorum decus & præfidium.
Omni dehinc cogitatione
Communi bono promovendo incubuit :
Brevique hunc virum,
Sua in fenatu folertia, in concilio providentia,
In utroque, juftitia, fides, auctoritas,
Ad gerendam ærarii curam evexit :
Ubi laborantibus fifci rebus opportunè fubveniens,
Simul monetam argenteam
Magno Reipublicæ detrimento imminutam
De novo cudi fecit;
Et inter abfolvendum tantæ molis opus,
Flagrante etiam bello,
Impreffis chartulis
Pecuniarum rationem pretiumque impertiit.
His meritis et patriæ & principis gratiam confecutus,
Familiam fuam diu illuftrem, illuftriorem reddidit;
Baro fcilicet, deinde comes de Halifax creatus,
Ad tres Montacutani nominis proceres quartus acceffit.
Summo denique Perifcelidis honore ornatus,
Publici commodi indefeffus adhuc confultor,
Media inter conamina, otium cum dignitate,
Quod defideravit, & meruit, vix tandem affecutus ;
(Proh brevem humanarum rerum fiduciam !)
Omnibus bonis flebilis occidit,
XIX die Maii, Anno Salutis MDCCXV.
Ætatis fuæ LIV.
Patruo de fe optimè merenti,
Et bonorum & honorum hæres,
Georgius comes de Halifax
Here lies Sir THOMAS POWYS, Knight:
As to his Profeffion,
In accufing, cautious; in defending, vehement;
In all his pleadings, fedate, clear, and strong;
In all his decifions, unprejudic'd and equitable.
He ftudied, practifed, and governed the Law
In fuch a manner, that
Nothing equaled his knowledge, except his eloquence;
Nothing excelled both, except his justice.
As to his Life,
He poffeffed, by a natural happiness,
All those civil virtues which form the gentleman:
And to thefe, by divine goodness, were added
That fervent zeal and extenfive charity,
Which diftinguish the perfect Christian!
The tree is known by his fruit.
He was a loving husband and an indulgent father,
A conftant friend and a charitable patron;
Frequenting the devotions of the church;
Pleading the cause, and relieving the neceflities,
of the poor.
What by example he taught throughout his life, At his death he recommended to his family and friends: "To fear God, and live uprightly."
Let whoever reads this stone,
Be wife, and be inftructed.
To the Right Honourable Mr. Harley,
To Mr. Hailey, wounded by Guifcard, 1711.
Extempore Invitation to the Earl of Oxford, Lord
High Treasurer, 1714.
Erle Robert's Mice, in Chaucer's Style.
Two Poems in the fame Style.
A Flower painted by Simon Varelst.
Gualterus Daniftonus ad Amicos.
Imitated.
The First Hymn of Callimachus. To Jupiter.
The Second Hymn of Callimachus. To Apollo.
Charity. A Paraphrafe on the Thirteenth Chapter
of the First Epistle to the Corinthians.
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