| Alexander Pope (1688–1744). Complete Poetical Works. 1903. | | | | Epitaphs | | On Charles, Earl of Dorset |
| | | | His saltem accumulem donis, et fungar inani Munere! |
| VIRG. [Æn. vii. 885.] |
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| In the Church of Withyam, Sussex |
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DORSET, the Grace of Courts, the Muses’ Pride, | |
| Patron of Arts, and Judge of Nature, died. | |
| The scourge of Pride, tho’ sanctified or great, | |
| Of Fops in Learning, and of Knaves in State: | |
| Yet soft his Nature, tho’ severe his Lay, | 5 |
| His Anger moral, and his Wisdom gay. | |
| Bless’d Satirist! who touch’d the mean so true, | |
| As show’d, Vice had his hate and pity too. | |
| Bless’d Courtier! who could King and Country please, | |
| Yet sacred keep his Friendships and his Ease. | 10 |
| Bless’d Peer! his great Forefathers’ ev’ry grace | |
| Reflecting, and reflected in his race; | |
| Where other Buckhursts, other Dorsets shine, | |
| And Patriots still, or Poets, deck the line. | | | |
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