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Epitaph On a Nephew In Catworth Church Huntingdonshire

Stay, stranger, stay, and drop one tear.

She always weeps, who laid him here;

And will do till her race is run;

His father's fifth, her only son.

This Epitaph, printd for the first time in Sir James Prior's "Life of Malone" from Malone's MS. additions to his own Life of Dryden, which are in the Bodleian Library,

Oxford, was accidentally omitted in printing the "Epitaphs." The nephew, for whom the Epitaph was written, was the only son of Dryden's sister,

Rose, who was the second wife of the Rev.

Dr.

Laughton of Catworth.~Globe Edition of the Works of Dryden, 1921.

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John Henry Dryden

John Dryden (/ˈdraɪdən/; 19 August [O.S. 9 August] 1631 – 12 May [O.S. 1 May] 1700) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playw…

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