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The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume I. by Theophilus Cibber
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En toy quies fitz de Dieu le pere,
Sauve soit, qui gist fours cest pierre.

The second writing MERCY, with this device;

O bene Jesu fait ta mercy,
A'lame, dont la corps gisticy.

The third writing PITY, with this decree;

Pour ta pitie Jesu regarde,
Et met cest a me, en sauve garde.

His arms were in a Field Argent, on a Chevron Azure, three Leopards
heads or, their tongues Gules, two Angels supporters, and the crest a
Talbot.

His EPITAPH.

Armigeri soltum nihil a modo fert sibi tutum,
Reddidit immolutum morti generale tributum,
Spiritus exutum se gaudeat esse solutum
Est ubi virtutum regnum sine labe est statum.

I shall take a quotation from a small piece of his called the Envious
Man and the Miser; by which it will appear, that he was not, as
Winstanley says, a refiner of our language, but on the other hand,
that poetry owes him few or no obligations.

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