Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey].

  • Aubrey, John, 1626-1697
Date:
1784
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Credit: Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3 WAY PAW ERY Sir Kenelm Digby, that renowned knight, great linguift, and magazine of arts, was born and died on the eleventh of June, and alfo fought fortunately at Scanderoon the fame day. Hear his epitaph, compofed by Mr. Farrar, and recited in the aforefaid Memoirs: Under this ftone the matchlefs Digby lies, Digby the great, the valiant and the wife: This age’s wonder for his noble parts ; Skill’d in fix tongues, and learn’d in all the. ‘arts, Born on the day he died, th’ eleventh of June, On which he bravely fought at Scanderoon. “Tis rare that one and felf-fame day fhould be Fis day of birth, of death, of victory, I had a maternal uncle, that died the third of March, 1678, which was the anniverfary day of his birth; and (which is a truth ex- ceeding ftrange) many years ago he foretold the day of his death to be that of his birth ; and he alfo averred the fame but about the week before his departure. The third of March is the day of St. Eutropius ; and as to my uncle it was. fignificative; it turned well | : ta