Ah, mighty Prince!

Whom lavish Nature and industrious Art

Had fitted for immortal Fame,

Their utmost bounty could no more impart;

How comes it that thy venerable name

20Should be submitted to my theme?

Unkindly baulk'd by the prime skilful men,

Abandon'd to be sullied by so mean a pen!

Tell me, ye skilful men, if you have read

In all the fair memorials of the Dead,