1.  this  silent  marble  weeps.     This  was  a  common


256  NOTES.
poetical  phrase  last  century  in  speaking  of  momi-

ments  to  the  dead.
6.  soft  humanity.     Mitford  cites  lines  from  Dryden

and  Pope  in  which  this  phrase  occurs.
7-10.  Mitford  gives  the  six  following  lines  as  in  a

manuscript  copy  instead  of  lines  7  to  10  as  finally

decided  on : —

' '  To  hide  her  cares  her  only  art,
Her  pleasure,  pleasures  to  impart,
In  ling'ring  pain,  in  death  resigned,
Her  latest  agony  of  mind
Was  felt  for  him,  who  could  not  save
His  all  from  an  untimely  grave."

9.  Mrs.  Clarke  died  in  childbirth,  but  the  infant
survived  her.
XX.— EPITAPH  ON  A  CHILD.
THIS  epitaph  was  written  at  the  request  of  Dr.
