Letter to the Countess of Ossory, 15 Jan. 1788. Letters, ed. Peter Cunningham, 1859, vol. ix. p. 124.

PAUL WHITEHEAD, 1790
(1710-1774)

While here to Shakespeare Garrick pays

His tributary thanks and praise;

Invokes the animated stone,

To make the poet’s mind his own;

That he each character may trace

With humour, dignity, and grace;

And mark, unerring mark, to men,