Note 34 — POEMS 1809-1813.
Reading edition
["The Lovers' Walk is terminated with an ornamental urn, inscribed to Miss Dolman, a beautiful and amiable relation of Mr. Shenstone's, who died of the small-pox, about twenty-one years of age, in the following words on one side:—
'Peramabili consobrinæ M.D.'
On the other side—
'Ah! Maria! pvellarvm elegantissima! ah Flore venvstatis abrepta, vale! hev qvanto minvs est cvm reliqvis versari qvam tui meminisse.'"
(From a Description of the Leasowes, by A. Dodsley; Poetical Works of William Shenstone [1798], p. xxix.)]