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great acquisitions, nothing, even so early as
1683, remained but his epitaph engraved in
modest style upon black marble over the
grave in St. Botolph's :
Sir Paul Pindar, Kt. His Majesty's Ambassador to the Turkish
Emperor
Anno Dom. 1611, and Nine Years Resident.
Faithful in Negotiations, Foreign and Domestjck ;
Eminent for Piety, Charity, Loyalty, and
Prudence. An Inhabitant Twenty-six Years, and bountifull
Benefactor to this Parish.
He died the 22d of August, 1650, Aged 84 years.
Thomas Pyndar, Esq., son of Sir Paul, had for a short time possession of Nerquis House in Flintshire by marriage with Miss Wynne, heiress of the place. Their son Paul was created a baronet in 1662, and as he died single, the estate devolved by maternal right to Paul Williams, Esq., of Pont-y-gwyddel. On the death of Edward Williams, Esq., in 1737, it fell to his sister, relict of Robert Hyde, Esq.
J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.
(To be continued.")
GRAY'S ' ELEGY ' :
TRANSLATIONS AND PARODIES.
(See ante, p. 62.)
II. PARODIES AND IMITATIONS.
See 2 S. xii. 128; 3 S. i. 112, 197, 220,
255, 339, 355, 398, 432 ; ii. 17, 55, 199 ;
6 S. viii. 107 ; ix. 509 ; x. 37, 112, 239 ;
8 S. iii. 44 ; 9 S. vii. 8 ; 10 S. ii. 175 : v. 406.
English.
Alfred. ' Alas ! Poor Fallen Sir Francis ! Elegy written in Westminster Hall.' In The Morning Post, 20 May, 1811. Cf. 3 S. ii. 17 ;
5 S. iii. 44.
' The Author ' (a parody on the Epitaph). One stanza quoted by Walter Hamilton,
- Parodies of the Works of English and Ame-
rican Authors,' January, 1888, part 50, p. 42.
William Lisle Bowles. ' Elegy written at the Hotwells, Bristol, July, 1789.' London, Cadell
6 Davies (what date ?). Two stanzas quoted by Hamilton, 077. tit., p. 44.
Michael Bruce. ' Elegy, written in Spring.' In Pratt, ' Cabinet of Poetry,' 1808, v. 429-31.
John Brandish. ' An Elegy on a Family- Tomb.' Cambridge, 1783.
C. 'An Elegy, written in a London Church- yard.' In ' The Annual Anthology,' 1800, pp. 247-53. Cf. 9 S. vii. 8. Apparently a mere revision of ' An Elegy in a London Churchyard,' an The Morning Post, 18 July, 1799. See below.
Lord Chelmsford. ' Circuit Elegy.' Copies
were printed and sent to the Bar Mess, 12 Jiily,
1881. Eeprinted by Hamilton, op. cit., pp. 36-7.
Corporal Trim. ' Nocturnal Contemplations in Barham-Down Camp, 1795.' In The Gentle- man's Magazine, June, 1801, Ixxi. 549-50. Re- printed in ' The Port Folio,' 1801, i. 352, and in L. D.'s edition of the ' Elegy ' with a French translation, 1806, where it is signed H.
' Cremorne : an Elegy.' In Funny Folks, 1878. Reprinted by Hamilton, op. cit., p. 36.
John Cunningham. ' An Elegy on a Pile of Ruins.' London, 1761.
J. S. Dalton. ' Pensive in a Boneyard.' In ' Lyra Bicyclia,' 1885.
Thomas "Dibdin. 'Woes of Change; or, The Lachrymatory Lament of Laudator Temporis (et Rerum). Act i.' In The Comic Magazine, vol. i. 1832.
William Dobson (3 S. ii. 55) quotes from memory a parody of the Epitaph published at the time of the Reform Bill agitation. Can any one now supply the reference ?
[Hugh Downman.] ' An Elegy wrote under a Gallows.' London, [1770 ?1.
John Buncombe. ' An Elegy written in Canter- bury Cathedral.' Canterbury, 1778. Merely a loose imitation.
Same. ' An Evening Contemplation in a College.' London, 1753. The first of the long series of parodies. Reprinted as by "An Oxonian " in 1776 (cf. 2 S. xii. 128).
Edward. ' Elegy.' In The Mirror, 26 Feb., 1825, v. 131-2.
Thomas Edwards. Additional stanzas for the 1 Elegy.' In The Gentleman's Magazine, March, 1782, Iii. 120.
' Elegy.' In ' The Poetical Calendar,' 2nd ed., 1763, vi." 68-70.
' Elegy.' In The Mirror, 1825, v. 131.
' An Elegy in a London Churchyard.' In The Morning Post, 18 July, 1799. Cf. 3 S. i. 356.
1 An Elegy in Imitation of Gray.' Written in the King's Bench Prison, by a Minor. London, 1790.
' Elegy in St. Stephen's Chapel.' In ' The New Tory Guide,' London, 1819.
' Elegy on a Betting Office.' In Diogenes, 1853. Reprinted by Hamilton, op. cit., p. 31.
' Elegy on a Pair of Breeches.' In ' The British Minerva,' Hamburgh, 1818. Reprinted by Hamilton, op. cit., p. 22.
' An Elegy on Cremation.' In Scribner's Monthly, July, 1875.
' Elegy on the Death of Bow-Fair, 1823.' In The Mirror, 1823. Reprinted by Hamilton, op. cit., p. 23.
' An Elegy on the Death of The Guardian Out- witted.' London, 1765.
1 An Elegy on the Departed Season.' In Banter, September, 1867. Reprinted by Hamil- ton, op. cit., pp. 47-8.
' Elegy, Supposed to be written on a Field of Battle.' London, 1818. Loosely imitative.
' Elegy written among the Tombs in West- minster Abbey.' In Bell's ' Fugitive Poetry,' London, 1789, 'ix. 36-42.
' An Elogy written at a Carthusian Monastery in the Austrian Netherlands.' London, 1775.
' Elegy written in a College Library.' In Sir J. H. Moore's ' Elegant Extracts from the British Poets,' 1824. Reprinted by Hamilton, op. cit., pp. 22-3.
