O indignant reader, think not his life useless to mankind, providence connived at his execrable designs, to give to after-ages a conspicuous proof and example of how small estimation is exorbitant wealth in the sight of God, by his bestowing it on the most unworthy of all mortals.
Joannes jacet hic Mirandula—cætera norunt
Et Tagus et Ganges forsan et Antipodes.
Applied to F. C.
Here Francis Chartres lies—be civil!
The rest God knows—perhaps the devil.
JONATHAN SWIFT.
(1667-1745.)