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Original fileSatire in the form of an elegy on Henry Sacheverell who was prohibited from preaching by the House of Lords on 23 March 1710; an arched monument with at the top a portrait of Benjamin Hoadly held by two angels; Fame above holding a wreath and blowing a trumpet, on either side a skull and cross-bones with the words "Memento" and "Mori"; on the capitals of the pilasters candles, one extinguished and one burning; below on the left, a skull with a laurel wreath and cross-bones and a celestial crown with palms and laurels, and on the right a winged hourglass and a pick-axe and shovel. Under the arch is a scroll with fourteen engraved lines of verse satirically lamenting Sacheverell enforced silence, and at the bottom a tomb chest with two weeping boys and an "Epitaph", "Here lies Sacheverell, who would have thought it,/Jacks and High Flyers did not, tho: they wrought it./From Fiercely Preaching in a railling way/He's now debar'd, then laugh and go your way." 1710
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