Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain…

And I will say this further; That when certain Persons had found the Skull of a Dead Man, as a Greek Writer of Epigrams has told us, they all fell a Weeping, but only one of the Company, who Laughed and Flouted, and through an unheard of Cruelty, threw Stones at it, which Stones wonderfully rebounded back upon the Face of him that threw ⟨p. 107⟩them, and miserably wounded him: Thus, if any shall be so unchristian, yea, so Inhumane as libellously to throw Stones at so deserved a Reputation, as this Gentleman has dyed withal, they shall see a Just Rebound of all their Calumnies.

But the Name of Sir WILLIAM PHIPS will be heard Honourably mentioned in the Trumpets of Immortal Fame, when the Names of many, that Antipathied him, will either be Buried in Eternal Oblivion, without any Sacer Vates to preserve them, or be remembered, but like that of Pilate in the Gospel, or Judas in the Creed, with Eternal Infamy.

But the Name of Sir WILLIAM PHIPS will be heard Honourably mentioned in the Trumpets of Immortal Fame, when the Names of many, that Antipathied him, will either be Buried in Eternal Oblivion, without any Sacer Vates to preserve them, or be remembred, but like that of Pilate in the Gospel, or Judas in the Creed, with Eternal Infamy.

The old Persians indeed, according to the Report of Agathias, exposed their Dead Friends to be Torn in pieces by Wild Beasts, believing that if they lay long unworried, they had been unworthy Persons; but, all attempts of surviving Malice, to demonstrate in that way, the worth of this Dead Gentleman, give me leave to Rate off with Indignation.