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. — " Hackctt in his Epitaphs , i . 193 * re-« narks however , that he found , in an old collection of Latin and Greek , verses oa the death of Henry Prince o £ W atea * two lines which it is not impossible Po / k had seeru
Angle ! tuum tumulus sit cor , titulus siet iste t . ' Henricus princeps mortuus- —Hie situs cst . " Lucllow and Pope might both have seen Crashaw and the verses oft Prince Henry ; hut I am persuaded that had Wakefieitl
observed the passage on Ireton he would have given that as the most probable origin of the concluding lines of the Epitaph on Gay . Nor would he have been
scrmdalized as Johnson or \ Vflrto » might have been * to tract ; the excursions of his favoufrite poet even into the Memoirs of ' Ltrdlow .
I cannot forbear to reaaairk , how the story of Ire ton strikmgly displays c * the chissel ' s slender help to fame . " in the ease of a
public irean , when compared with the pen of the historian which can , as was elegantly attributed to the Jyre of the poet ,
Ci longposterity hts praise consign , " Aad pay a life of hardships by a line . * Ludlow ' s praise of Ireton will probably be read while the English history is an object of
attention , though the monument raised to him by the pride or affection of Cromwell was soon . overthrown , the sanctuary of his grave violated , aryl his body exposed at Tyburn , with those of Bradshaw and the
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Protector himself . So little did the men who returned to power at the Restoration partake of the ad * mired sentiment , ** That British vengeance wars not wltli the dead . "
Even Blake , the Dstval champion of England , was no longer ai * Low ^ ed the . Iruiy enviable chance ot" mixing his dust with the sacred akshes of kiniis .
By the order of the Protector , be had beeu deservedly honoured with a public funeral and interred in a vault , built on purpose ^ in Hfiuy the Vila ' s . Chapel . la
1661 , there was a royal mandate to cleanse the Abbey-Church from the pollution which it sustained by giving a burial to those who had acted or died for the
Commonwealths According to Wood , no republican historian , the body of Bl # J \ e was now cast into a pit , which had been dug in the adjoiuias ; church-yard as a common
receptacle on tltat horrible occasion * . The republicans , whatever might be their delects , appear
to advantage on this point . They offered no indignities to the body of Charles , nor , I , believe , ex-Ci'pting the occasional licences of the common soldiery , did they carry their hostilities into the graves of their opponents . That magnanimous triumph over the dei ><{ they left for the royalists * to
grace the return of < c regular government . " Your ' s , ADJUTOR .
* «« tjis body was then ( Sep . 12 , 1661 , ^ taken up , and with others buried in a pit in St . Margaret ^ Church-yard adjoining , near to the back-door of one of the Prebendaries # f Westminster ; in which place it now rcmainerh , enjoying no other monument , but what is reared by his valour , whjch time itself can hardly deface . " A Wood , Axt . Blake , Fast . Oxon , ad . Ed . I *© j .
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ImcIIow ' s Character of Ireton the origin of Pope ' s Epitaph on Gog . € 9
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 69, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/13/
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