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The Tatler, Volume 1

Note 447 — [STEELE.

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General Henry Withers commanded at the capitulation of Tournay. On his death in 1729, he was buried in Westminster Abbey. Pope wrote an epitaph beginning:

"Here, Withers, rest! thou bravest, gentlest mind, Thy country's friend, but more of human-kind."

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