So public blessings are his virtue's due.

Shout, Britons, shout—auspicious fortune bless!

And cry, Long live—Our title to success!


Epitaph

On Lord Aubrey Beauclerk[45], in Westminster Abbey, 1740.

Whilst Britain boasts her empire o'er the deep,

This marble shall compel the brave to weep:

As men, as Britons, and as soldiers, mourn;