"Here lies honest William, whose heart was a mint, / While the owner ne'er knew half the good that was in't."
Retaliation: A Poem. By Doctor Goldsmith. Including Epitaphs on the Most Distinguished Wits of this Metropolis.
At least 14 entries in ESTC (1774, 1776, 1777). [Unfinished at Goldsmith's death (April 4, 1774), the poem breaks off in the middle of an epitaph for Reynolds. Lonsdale believes the poem was begun in January with some of it written in March 1774, when Goldsmith was in the country.]<br>
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See Oliver Goldsmith, <u>Retaliation: a Poem. By Doctor Goldsmith. Including Epitaphs on the Most Distinguished Wits of this Metropolis</u> (London: G. Kearsley, 1774). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW117029175&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt; &lt;<a href="https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/html/1807/4350/poem876.html">Link to RPO</a>&gt;<br>
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See Roger Lonsdale's <u>The Poems of Thomas Gray, William Collins, and Oliver Goldsmith</u> (London and New York: Longman and Norton: 1972), 741-59. 