He envied neither wealth nor power,

Enjoying still the present hour;

Contented with his daily bread,

Each night he sought his peaceful bed:

Stranger to vice he knew no fear,

As life’s important end drew near;

He breath’d his last without a sigh,

And shew’d how Innocence shou’d die

Blush, reader, while these lines you scan

Here lies a Monkey, not a man.