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From the Oxford Sausage
By fr Bacon who wrote in 1763 the following lines on the Bust of Milton In the Gadens of Ld [lord] Harcourt at Newnham -------------
"Could Milton be restor'd to sight, Me might, at Good Lord Harcourts Cost, See here with exquisite delight The Paradise His Adam Lost" [7 flourishes] Epitath on a Lawyer __ __ __ ______ Hic jacet [here lies] Jacobus Straw [superscript r inserted]
who forty years followed the Law
when he dyed the Devil Cry'd
John give us your paw."
[8 flourishes] In claudum Poetam
Quam bene converiunt inter se carmen et autor
Claudicat hoc numero Claudicat ille pede
How well the author and His lines Agree! Lame are his numbers & a cripple He.
W.H.R.