An elegy on the lamented death of the electrical eel, or gymnotus electricus : with the lapidary inscription, as placed on a superb erection, at the expence of the Countess of H---------, and Chevalier-Madame d'Eon de Beaumont / By Lucretia Lovejoy [pseud.], sister to Mr. Adam Strong, author of the Electrical eel.

Date:
1777
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An elegy on the lamented death of the electrical eel, or gymnotus electricus : with the lapidary inscription, as placed on a superb erection, at the expence of the Countess of H---------, and Chevalier-Madame d'Eon de Beaumont / By Lucretia Lovejoy [pseud.], sister to Mr. Adam Strong, author of the Electrical eel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ■■ ] Here Love and Idle every year (hall blow;\ Lind pitying virgins heave the unfeign d figh ; Here weeping dames fall fir ike their breajls and cry. Here ^ did he live—here did the charmer die. Frantic with grief I bent my hafty fteps To the fad place where all my comfort lay. There I beheld a thoufand demi-reps. Pouring their forrows forth in black array. original is literally thus ; For thou flialt bruife his head, if thou mo- lefteft this Eel f * which reverts to the old ferpent being an Eel. For no heel is famous on record but Achilles’s^ and he was bit in the ignoble part. f A beautiful velvet flower, by fome called heart’s eafe, of which the queen worked a waiftcoat for her king. J So Ovid faid of himfeif with no common fhare of Juvenile vanity at forty-five—I wifli Mr. Wilkes may do the fame. Conveniem mors fuit ijia jucer • • The