Epitaph

While engaged in some enquiries after family documents in the British Museum lately, I lighted on a little poem, which, though not connected with my immediate object, I copied, and here subjoin, hoping your readers will be as much attracted as I was by the simplicity and elegance of the lines and thoughts; and that some one of them, with leisure and opportunity, will do what I had not time to do, namely, —decypher in the MSS. the *name* of the "Worthie Knight" on whom this epitaph was composed, and give any particulars which can be ascertained concerning him. EPITAPH ON —— (*Harleian MSS.*, 78…