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I would now bring together several ‘estimates’ of our Worthy by those who knew him well, and thus could form an accurate judgment concerning him. First of all, I am fortunate enough to be able to give, from an old, worn, and weather-stained holograph preserved by Prebendary Gilpin, a quaint ‘Poem,’ which probably represents in portions of it the inscription placed on his ‘monument’—long since mouldered away. Here it is, rude and halting in rhyme and rhythm, but biographically interesting:—

TO THE MEMORY OF YE EXCELLENT DR GILPIN.

In mournfull numbers I did weep of late,

Criton the wise,64 and sweet Philander’s fate,65

And Calvus,66 to ye learned world well known.

Oppress’d and wth repeated grief borne down,

Palæmon’s67 death succeeding struck me dumb,

My tears were all I offer’d at his tomb.

Thus th’ Eastern sage68 wth wondrous patience bore

Thrice dismal news, but he could bear no more,

Did weep, fall down, and silently adore.

My trouble now swells o’er, and artless strays,

Where nature yields, and passion leads ye ways.