Satirical Elegy

• "His grace! impossible! what dead!"
• "And could that Mighty Warrior fall? And so inglorious, after all!"
• "The last loud trump must wake him now"
• "He'd wish to sleep a little longer"
• "Threescore, I think, is pretty high; 'Twas time in conscience he should die"
• "He burnt his candle to the snuff"
• "He left behind so great a stink"
• "nor widow's sighs, nor orphan's tears"
• "his friends may say"
• "Come hither, all ye empty things, Ye bubbles rais'd by breath of Kings; Who float upon the tide of state"