Thos. Nimmo.
POPIANA.
I. In Roscoe's edition of Pope, vol. iv. p. 465., is this epitaph:
"Well then, poor G—— lies underground,
So there's an end of honest Jack:
So little justice here he found,
'Tis ten to one he'll ne'er come back."
This must have been running in Goldsmith's heed when he wrote:
"Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed,