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Making the Inscription of his Monument himself; for he began and ended his Poetical Compositions with an Epitaph. And this he made exactly according to the Law of his Master Plato on such occasions, without the least ostentation.

I sunk Flocks, Tillage, Heroes; Mantua gave Me Life, Brundusium Death, Naples a Grave.