_Schomberg's Epitaph by Swift._--A correspondent asks whether the epitaph
alluded to in the following extract from the _Daily Courant_ of July 17,
1731, is given in any edition of Swift's _Works_.
"The Latin Inscription, composed by the Rev. Dr. Swift, Dean of St.
Patrick's, and ordered by the Dean and Chapter to be fixed up in the
Cathedral of the said Church, over the place where the body of the
great Duke of Schomberg lies, has been with all possible care and
elegance engraved on a beautiful table of black Kilkenny marble, about
eight feet long and four or five broad; the letters are gilded, and the
whole is now finished with the utmost neatness. People of all ranks are
continually crowding to see it, and the Inscription is universally
admired."
The _Daily Gazetteer_ of Saturday, July 12, 1740, gives a detailed account
of the rejoicings in Dublin on the Tuesday preceding, being the anniversary
of the battle of the Boyne, and a particular account of the bonfire made by
Dean Swift in St. Kevin's Street, near the watch-house.