For MR HACKETTS EPITAPHS. ETERNE MEM B.Cole Sculp How are the Mighty fallen! Oh! that they understood this! O'that they would consider this, & be wise! EPITAPH S ON ILLUSTRIOUS and OTHER PERSONS, IN SEVERAL PARTS of EUROPE. WITH TRANSLATIONS Of fuch as are in LATIN and Foreign LANGUAGES. AND Compendious Accounts of the DECEASED, Their LIVES and WORK S. By JOHN HACKETT, Life's but a walking Shadow, a poor Play'r, In Two VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: Printed for T. OSBORNE, and J. SHIPTON, in GRAY'S-INN. M.DCC.LVII. To the Honourable JAMES BRUCE, Esq; O F BROOMHALL, SCOTLAND. Dear Sir, A S I know your Temper was always averse to fulfome Panegyric, and as even my Enemies will own that to be among the many Things in which I myself am not born to make any Figure, you need not fear being put out of Countenance any further than by having it known that you deign me the Honour of your Friendship. This Connexion I could always boast of, even in the most ridiculous and abfurd of all my Undertakings, in my Days of fpecial Folly: But as I began to be a Fool very early, fo I hope it will not be found that I have recovered the Ufe of my Senfes too late. The |