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EPITAPH

On Brigadier General HILL.

1 Of manners gentle, yet a friend to truth,
2 With age not peevish, nor yet vain in youth:
3 Brave, yet humane, and blameless tho' severe;
4 His speech was open, and his heart sincere:
5 In courts unbrib'd, not factious tho' retir'd;
6 Most lov'd the Soldier, more the Man admir'd.
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7 A Queen his Mistress,
Queen Anne.
. and his Friend, Mankind;
8 His Fortunes! to yon little spot
Englefield Green.
confin'd.
9 Such once was Hill and various tho' his lot,
10 The same Companion, favour'd, or forgot.

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Title (in Source Edition): EPITAPH On Brigadier General HILL.
Author: Mary Jones
Themes: death
Genres: heroic couplet; epitaph
References: DMI 34389

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Jones, Mary, d. 1778. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. By Mary Jones. Oxford: Printed; and delivered by Mr. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, Mr. Clements in Oxford, and Mr. Frederick in Bath, MDCCL., 1750, pp. 110-111. vi,[1],xlv,[1],405p. (ESTC T115196) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [Harding C 1723].)

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