‘Tu ſecanda marmora
Locas ſub ipſum ſunus; et ſepulchri
Immemor, ſtruis domos.’
Which Sentiment, I ſhall thus give to the Engliſh Reader: ‘You provide the nobleſt Materials for Building, when a Pick-ax and a Spade are only neceſſary; and build Houſes of five hundred by a hundred Feet, forgetting that of ſix by two.’
CHAP. IX.
A Proof of the Infallibility of the foregoing Receipt, in the Lamentations of the Widow; with other ſuitable Decorations of Death, ſuch as Phyſicians, &c. and an Epitaph in the true Stile.
Mr. Allworthy, his Siſter, and another Lady, were aſſembled at the accuſtomed Hour in the Supper Room, where having waited a conſiderable Time longer than uſual, Mr. Allworthy firſt declared he began to grow uneaſy at the Captain’s Stay; (for he was always moſt punctual at his Meals,) and gave Orders that the Bell ſhould be rung without the Doors, and eſpecially
