Gulielmi & Annæ
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 left hand.
G. S.
Ex Equeſtri Familia Stepneiorum,
De Pendegrast, in Comitatu
Pembrochiensi Oriendus,
Westmonasterii natus eſt, A. D. 1663.
Electus in Collegium
Sancti Petri Westmonast. A. 1676.
Sanctæ Trinitatis Cantab. 1682.
Conſiliariorum quibus Commercii
Cura commiſſa est 1697.
Chelseiæ mortuus, & Comitante
Magna Procerum
Frequentiâ huc elatus, 1707.
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.
