Note 8 — Chapter II
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Bâlbec has to boast of having given birth to a famous physician, named Beder-ed-dyn Bâlbeky, who lived in the third century of the hegira.
I marked in charcoal, on the walls of the inner temple, the name of Lady Hester with this laudatory quatrain:—
Quam multa antiquis sunt his incisa columnis Nomina! cum saxo mox peritura simul. Sed tu nulla times oblivia: fama superstes, Esther, si pereant marmora, semper erit. How many names, else never to be known, Live for a while, inscribed upon this stone! But, Hester, thine oblivion shall not fear:— Fame will transmit it, though not written here.
However, her ladyship requested me immediately to efface the whole; and she declared she never had consented, when living with her uncle, to be praised in verse, or portrayed in painting.