in a burlesque sense, be said to keep his ease sacred.
Blest peer!—
The blessing ascribed to the peer has no connection with his peerage: they might happen to any other man, whose ancestors were remembered, or whose posterity were likely to be regarded.
I know not whether this epitaph be worthy either of the writer or the man entombed.
II.
On Sir William Trumbal, one of the Principal Secretaries of State to King William III. who having resigned his place, died in his retirement at Easthamstead in Berkshire, 1716.
A pleasing form, a firm, yet cautious mind,
Sincere, though prudent; constant, yet resign'd,
Honour unchang'd, a principle protest,
Fix'd to one side, but moderate to the rest:
An honest courtier, yet a patriot too,
Just to his prince, and to his country true.
Fill'd with the sense of age, the fire of youth,
A scorn of wrangling, yet a zeal for truth;
