The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 7/Epitaph on the Same
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EPITAPH ON THE SAME.
BENEATH this verdant hillock lies
Demar[1], the wealthy and the wise.
His heirs, that he might safely rest,
Have put his carcase in a chest;
The very chest, in which, they say,
His other self, his money, lay.
And, if his heirs continue kind
To that dear self he left behind,
I dare believe, that four in five
Will think his better half alive.
- ↑ John D'Amory, esq. dying in 1720 without issue, his estates in Ireland went to John, the eldest son of his brother George; and his Dorsetshire estates to Joseph, a younger son, the immediate ancestor of the present earl of Dorchester.