As fittest for discourse, and nearest prose;
For while from sacred truth I do not swerve,
Tom Sternhold's, or Tom Shadwell's rhymes will serve.[36]
THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS:
A
FUNERAL PINDARIC POEM,
SACRED TO THE
HAPPY MEMORY OF
KING CHARLES II.
Fortunati ambo si quid mea carmina possunt,
Nulla dies unquam memori vos eximet ævo!