Chapter 12 INTENDED FOR SIR ISAAC NEWTON.

In Westminster Abbey.

ISAACUS NEWTONIUS:

Quem immortalem

Testantur, tempus, natura, c?lum:

Mortalem

Hoc marmor fatetur.

Nature, and nature's law, lay hid in night:

God said, Let Newton be! And all was light.

Of this epitaph, short as it is, the faults seem not to be very few. Why part should be Latin, and part English, it is