<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37621" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Epitaph on Don Francisco</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">An Epitaph.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Here lieth the Body of Colonel<br> DON FRANCISCO;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Who, with inflexible Constancy,<br> And inimitable Uniformity of Life,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Persisted, in Spite of Age and Infirmity,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> In the Practice of every human Vice,<br> Excepting Prodigality and Hypocrisy;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> His insatiable Avarice<br> Exempting him from the first,<br> And his matchless Impudence<br> From the latter.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Nor was he more singular<br> In that undeviating Viciousness of Life,<br> Than successful in accumulating Wealth;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Having,<br> Without Trust of public Money, Bribe,<br> Worth, Service, Trade, or Profession,<br> Acquired, or rather created<br> A Ministerial Estate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Among the Singularities of his Life and Fortune<br> Be it likewise commemorated,<br> That he was the only Person in his Time<br> Who could cheat without the Mask of Honesty;<br> Who could retain his primaeval Meanness</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> After being possessed of 10,000 Pounds a Year;<br> And who, having done, every Day of his Life,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Something worthy of a Gibbet,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Was once condemned to one<br> For what he had not done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Think not, indignant Reader,<br> His Life, useless to Mankind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> PROVIDENCE</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Favoured, or rather connived at<br> His execrable Designs,<br> That he might remain,<br> To this, and future Ages,<br> A conspicuous Proof and Example<br> Of how small Estimation<br>Exorbitant Wealth is held in the Sight<br> Of the ALMIGHTY,<br> By his bestowing it on<br> The most unworthy<br> Of all the Descendants<br> of Adam.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Arbuthnot">John Arbuthnot</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37621" data-title="Epitaph on Don Francisco de John Arbuthnot" data-description="An Epitaph./ Here lieth the Body of Colonel/ DON FRANCISCO;/ Who, with inflexible Constancy,/ And inimitable Uniformity of Life,/Persisted, in Spite of Age and Infirmity,/ In the Practice of every human Vice,/ Excepting Prodigality and Hypocrisy;..."></div> </div> </div>

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