INSCRIPTION FOR THE GRANITE SARCOPHAGUS BROUGHT FROM ALEXANDRIA TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
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This was the tomb of Alexander, The Macedonian great Commander, Who dealt about his killing blows Alike among his friends and foes: Who went on plundering, burning, stabbing, Carouzing, catamiting, drabbing, Kept a Castrato[25] for his punk, And died[26] heroically drunk: And if at last he went to hell, I warrant he deserved it well; Whate’er is said by flatt’ring Mitford, Who thinks he is gone to heav’n, and fit for ’t.