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Title: Epitaph On General Gorges, And Lady Meath Author: Jonathan Swift [More Titles by Swift] Epitaph On General Gorges,[1] and Lady Meath[2] Dick lost in Doll a wife tender and dear: Dick sigh'd for his Doll, and his mournful arms cross'd; Thus loaded with grief, Dick sigh'd and he cried: Dick left a pattern few will copy after: Here quiet they lie, in hopes to rise one day,
[Footnote 2: Dorothy, dowager of Edward, Earl of Meath. She was married to the general in 1716, and died 10th April, 1728. Her husband survived her but two days.--_F_. The Dolly of this epitaph is the same lady whom Swift satirized in his "Conference between Sir Harry Pierce's Chariot and Mrs. Dorothy Stopford's Chair." See _ante_, p.85.--_W. E. B._] [Footnote 3: John Cuffe, of Desart, Esq., married the general's eldest daughter.--_F._] [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |