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NOTE1850

UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM

By CH.

I am not aware that the following epigrams have ever been printed. I transferred them to my note-book some time ago from the letters of Mr. Martyn, a *littérateur* of temporary fame in the first half of the eighteenth century, addressed to Dr. Birch; which are among the Birch MSS. in the British Museum. Mr. Martyn, if I remember right, gives them as not his own. You may think them worth printing in your agreeable Miscellany:— EPITAPH ON ARCHBISHOP POTTER. "Alack and well-a-day Potter himself is turned to clay." Two epigrams on the coffins of Dr. Sacheverel and Sally Salisbury being found toget…

Topics: Epigrams, Eighteenth Century Literature

Locations: British Museum, St. Andrew's