EPITAPH ON EDWARD PURDON.* HERE lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long was a bookseller's hack; He led such a damnable life in this world, I don't think he'll wish to come back. * Mr. Purdon was educated at Trinity-College, Dublin; but having wasted his patrimony, he inlisted as a foot soldier. Growing tired of that employment, he obtained his discharge, and became a scribbler in the newspapers. He translated Voltaire's HENRIADE. AN ELEGY ON THE GLORY OF HER SEX, MRS. MARY BLAIZE. GOOD people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word.... From those who spoke her praise. The needy seldom pass'd her door, She freely lent to all the poor.... She strove the neighbourhood to please, With manners wondrous winning; And never follow'd wicked ways.... Unless when she was sinning. At church, in silks and sattins new, With hoop of monstrous size, She never slumber'd in her pew.... Her love was sought, I do aver, The king himself has follow'd her.... But now her wealth and finery fled, Her hangers-on cut short, all; The doctors found, when she was dead.... Her last disorder mortal. Let us lament, in sorrow sore, For Kent-street well may say, That had she liv'd a twelvemonth more.... She had not died to-day. |