_Epigram on Burnet_ (Vol. v., p. 58.).--Odd enough!--at the moment when
your No. 116. reached me, a volume of the _State Poems_ was before me,
in which I read the very _epigram_ to which your correspondent alludes,
where it thus stands:--
"ELEGY ON COLEMAN.
"If heaven be pleased, when sinners cease to sin,
If hell be pleased, when souls are damned therein,
If earth be pleased, when its rid of a knave,
Then all are pleased, for Coleman's in his grave."
_State Poems_, vol. iii. 1704.
Qy. Who was Coleman?