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borne. Two pyramids of black marble
standing on cannon balls, have two Moorish
Emperors heads in profile on their tops;
these pyramids are adorned with relievos,
on one Sir Palmes is shot while viewing
the enemy's lines before the town; and on
the other is a hearse and six horses bringing
him off wounded to the castle. Above in
a lofty dome are the arms of the deceased,
with this motto underneath; TUTUS SI
FORTIS, and over his arms a Turk's head
on a dagger, by way of crest, which he
won by his valour in fighting against that
people in the German war. On this monu-
ment is the following inscription:
Sacred to the immortal memory of Sir Palmes Fair-
borne, Knt. Governor of Tangier, in execution of
which command, he was mortally wounded by a shot
from the Moors, then besieging the town, in the 46th
year of his age, October 24, 1680.
His epitaph, wrote by Mr. Dryden, runs
thus:
Ye sacred reliques, which your marble keep,
Here undisturb'd by wars, in quiet sleep:
Discharge the trust, which (when it was below)
Fairborne's undaunted soul did undergo,
And be the town's palladium from the foe.
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Alive and dead these walls he will defend:
Great actions great examples must attend.
The Candian siege his early valour knew,
Where Turkish blood did his young hands imbrue;
From thence returning, with deserv'd applause,
Against the Moors his well flesh'd sword he draws,
The same the courage, and the same the cause.
His youth and age, his life and death combine,
As in some great and regular design,
All of a piece throughout, and all divine.
Still nearer heav'n his virtue shone more bright,
Like rising flames expanding in their height,
The martyr's glory crown'd the soldier's fight.
More bravely British General never fell,
Nor General's death was e'er reveng'd so well,
Which his pleas'd eyes beheld before their close,
Follow'd by thousand victims of his foes.
To his lamented loss, for times to come,
His pious widow consecrates this tomb.
26. On a table monument enriched with
military trophies, and raised against the
wall, is the following inscription:
To the memory of the honoured Major
Richard Creed, who attended his Ma-
jesty King William the Third in all his
wars, every where signalizing himself,
and never more himself than when he
looked an enemy in the face. At the
glorious battle of Blenheim, Ann. Dom.
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