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than an hour, his venerable head was entirely stripped of all its silver ornaments, so that not a hair remained.

He was buried in the most private manner, according to directions in his will, in the great aisle of St. Patrick's Cathedral; and by way of monument, a slab of black marble was placed against the wall, on which was engraved the following Latin epitaph, written by himself:

66 HIC DEPOSITUM EST CORPUS

JONATHAN SWIFT, S. T. P.

HUJUS ECCLESIÆ CATHEDRALIS

DECANI:

UBI SEVA INDIGNATIO

ULTERIUS COR LACERARE NEQUIT.
ABI, VIATOR,

ET IMITARE, SI POTERIS,

STRENUUM PRO VIRILI LIBERTATIS VINDICEM.

OBIIT ANNO (1745);

MENSIS (OCTOBRIS) DIE (19);
ETATIS ANNO (78.)".

END OF VOL. I

C. S. VAN WINKLE, PRINTER,
Pine-street, New-York.

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