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EPITAPH

ON A JUSTLY CELEBRATED SCHOOLMASTER.

Memoriæ sacrum

GULIELMI COLDSTREAM,
Apud Dunblanenses per XLIII Annos,
Ludimagistri «delis ac periti.
Ergo jaces Gulielme!

Nec moestae Familiæ Dolor
Te solum decorat.

En hocce Monumentum
Lubentur tui statuerunt Discipuli
Vitæ bene actæ Tenorem commemorans.
In te lucebant, juventæ etiam pergrata,
Morum Innocentia, Comitas, Facetiæ,
Ac benefaciendi, quoad poteras,
Sitis assidua.

Te tandem Senio pene confectum,
At meliora modeste sperantem,
Inter tuorum Lacrymas,
Atque Vicinorum desideria,
Levis extinxit Febris,

XII Cal. Januar. M,DCC,LXXXVII.
Quoniam Tempus fugit ac imputatur,
Ite, vos olim Discipuli,

Ac Magistrum Utilitate, Industria,
Felicisque Animi Tranquillitate,
Si possitis, imitamini.

The above epitaph is in the Church of Dumblane, a small repaired portion of the ancient cathedral, all the rest of which is now in ruins. Mr Coldstream's scholars were justly celebrated for their classical knowledge, and the above epitaph will be considered by men of taste and learning as no bad specimen.

EPITAPH

ON A DISTINGUISHED AUTHOR AND WORTHY MAN.

In hoc sepulchro condunturexuviæ
GULIELMI TYTLER DE WOODHOUSELEE,
Nat. XII. Oct. 1711, Mort. XII. Sept. M,DCC, XCII.
Viri probi, spectatissimi,
Ingenii, exculti, varii, felicis,

Et in veritate historica indaganda,
Ut scripta testantur
Apprime sagacis :

Cujus animi virtutes civium amor,
Per integrum vitæ spatium committatur,
Vita functum summo desiderio
Est prosecutus.

Juxta cineres Conjugis suæ amatæ,
ANNE CRAIG,

Animæ innocentissime, piæ, pudicæ,
Quæ comitas,

Quæ morum sanctitas,

In liberorum acerbis funeribus

Ipso juventæ flore obreptorum,
Quanta constantia !

Patri optimo, Matri carissimæ,
H. L. P. Filius.

The above epitaph of Mr Tytler, the celebrated author of the Vindication of Mary, Queen of Scots, and of several other learned works, particularly on ancient Scotish music, has been admired by many for the elegance of the language; while, at the same time, in the opin ion of all who had the happiness of knowing Mr Tytler and his wife, it conveys to posterity a just character of a worthy couple.

EPITAPH

ON THE CELEBRATED

COLIN MACLAURIN,
Professor of Mathematics in the University of
Edinburgh.

Infra situs est

COLIN MACLAURIN,

Matheseos olim in Acad. Edin. Prof.

Electus ipso Newtono suadente.
H. L. P. F.

Non ut nomini paterno consulat,
Nam tali auxilio nil eget,
Sed ut in hoc infelici campo,
Ubi luctus regnant, et pavor,
Mortalibus prorsus non absit solatium,
Hujus enim scripta evolve,

Mentemque tantarum rerum capacem,
Corpore caduco superstitem crede.

Mr Maclaurin's epitaph has attracted the notice, and obtained the approbation of many excellent classical scholars. It was written by his son, the late Lord Dreghorn. But it is said to have been in some particulars improved by corrections of the late celebrated Dr S. Johnson.-Vide Boswell's Life of Johnson.

EPITAPH

ON AN

INGENIOUS YOUNG MAN,

Superintendent of the Royal Botanical Garden at Edinburgh, who died at an early period of life, much regretted.

Sacrum memoriæ

JOANNIS MACKAY,

Qui

XVIII Cal. Maii

anno post Christum natum M,DCCC,II,

viginti novem annos natus,

diem defletus obiit supremum

mortalitate quidem expleta,

at nondum multiferæ Naturæ amœnitatum studio.

Quique
Vivus

ut ingenii bonitate, suâ modestiâ, morumque suavitate, erat amicis unice carus ;

sic hortensias FLORA deliciolas,

et rurigenam prolem,

tam indefesso pernoscendi ardore,

quam rarâ discernendi disponendique peritia,

Florilegis, Herbariisque acceptus.

Posuit Frater J. T. MACKAY,

M,DCCC,V.

EPITAPH

ON

ROBERT BURNS,

THE AYRSHIRE BARD.

Taken, mutato nomine, from the Elegy, written by himself, on Captain Henderson.

O Robbie Burns, the man, the brither,
And art thou gone-and gone for ever;
And hast thou cross'd that unknown river,

Life's dreary bound.

Like thee, where shall we find anither,

The world around.

Go to your sculptur'd tombs ye great,

In a' the tinsell trash of state;

But by thy honest turf I'll wait,

Thou man of worth,

And

weep the sweetest Poet's fate,

E'er liv'd on earth.

Burns demonstrated his veneration for departed genius, by the tomb-stone which he placed in the Canongate church-yard, at the grave of Ferguson, the ingenious author of some admirable Scotish Poems; and, by his own writings, he has erected to himself a monument ære perennius. Yet it is perhaps a disgrace to the present age, that no stone marks the turf where his mortal part was deposited.

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