The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 18/Inscription by Dean Smedley

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INSCRIPTION,

BY DEAN SMEDLEY[1]. 1729.


Reverendus Decanus, Jonathan Smedley,
Theologia instructus, in Poesi exercitatus,
Politioribus excultus literis;
Parce pius, impius minime;
Veritatis Indagator, Libertatis Assertor;
Subsannatus multis, fastiditus quibusdam,
Exoptatus plurimis, omnibus amicus,
Auctor hujus sententiæ, Patres sunt vetulæ.
Per laudem et vituperium, per famam atque infamiam;
Utramque fortunam, variosque expertus casus,
Mente sana, sano corpore, volens, lætusque,
Lustris plus quam xi numeratis,
Ad rem familiarem restaurandam augendamque,
Et ad Evangelium Indos inter Orientales prædicandum,
Grevæ, idibus Februarii, navem ascendens,
Arcemque Sancti petens Georgii, vernale peræquinoxium,
Anno Æræ Christianæ mdccxxviii,
Transfretavit,
Fata vocant revocentque precamur.


  1. See a translation of this inscription, vol. VII, page 418.