AN EXPOSTULATORY SUPPLICATION TO DEATH, AFTER THE DECEASE OF DR. BURNEY.
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Thou Trojan Death! thou worse than Trojan foe To English Greeks, the best of Greeks we know! In three we boasted; three we had of late, Rare Burney, matchless Porson, and the great ΤΟΝ ΔΕΙΝΑ, props and pillars of our state; Two thou hast ravish’d from us; and the land Watches in anxious fear thy threat’ning hand. Two thou hast ravish’d, but we can’t resign a ΤΟΝ ΔΕΙΝΑ yet awhile,—O spare ΤΟΝ ΔΕΙΝΑ.