ON FREDERICK, DUKE OF SCHOMBERG[1]

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Hic infra situm est corpus

FREDERICI DUCIS DE SCHOMBERG.

ad BUDINDAM occisi, A.D. 1690.

DECANUS et CAPITULUM maximopere etiam

atque etiam petierunt,

UT HAEREDES DUCIS monumentum

In memoriam PARENTIS erigendum curarent:

Sed postquam per epistolas, per amicos,

diu ac saepè orando nil profecêre;

Hunc demum lapidem ipsi statuerunt,

Saltem[2] ut scias, hospes,

Ubinam terrarum SCONBERGENSIS cineres

delitescunt

"Plus potuit fama virtutis apud alienos,

Quam sanguinis proximitas apud suos."

A.D. 1731.

[Footnote 1: The Duke was unhappily killed in crossing the River Boyne,

July, 1690, and was buried in St. Patrick's Cathedral, where the dean and

chapter erected a small monument to his honour, at their own

expense.--_N_.]

[Footnote 2: The words with which Dr. Swift first concluded the epitaph

were, "Saltem ut sciat viator indignabundus, quali in cellulâ tanti

ductoris cineres delitescunt."--_N._]

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