The Scribleriad : an heroic poem. In six books.

  • Richard Owen Cambridge
Date:
1751
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Credit: The Scribleriad : an heroic poem. In six books. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    g 5 He faid. His friends in pyral order laid Six ample coffins of the royal dead: The tree which bears Imperial Pharoah'% name, By age uninjur’d form’d their lafling frame. On thefe, two mighty Crocodiles were plac’d ; 100 O’er which an huge unmeafur’d Skin was caft: This fpoil the Hippopotamus bellow’d : Scarce four flout youths fupport the pond’rous load. On the broad fkin the Sage with pious pains Difpos’d the fix great Monarchs dear remains; 305 Sefoji ris, Pheron, and his virtuous Dame, Cheops, Pfammetichus, immortal name! And Cleopatra s all-accomplifh’d frame. This done, two Camels from the troop he flays, And the pil’d fat around the mummie lays. B a Next, L. 97, The Tree which bears Imperial PharoahV Name.'] This Tree is by fome called Pharoahi*s Fig, by others Sycamore, from avnos, The Wood is fo remarkably durable, that many Coffins, which are undoubtedly upwards of 2oca Years old, are to be feen at this Day without any Sign of Rottennefs. L. 105. Pheron and his virtuous Dame.] See Heroiot us.
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