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Alexander Pope (1688–1744). Complete Poetical Works. 1903.

Poems: 1718–27

The Curll Miscellanies. IV. Epitaph

  • Imitated from a Latin couplet on Joannes Mirandula:—
  • Joannes jacet hic Mirandula: cætera norunt
  • Et Tagus et Ganges—forsan et Antipodes.

  • First applied by Pope to Francis Chartres, but published in this form in 1727.


    HERE lies Lord Coningsby—be civil!

    The rest God knows—perhaps the Devil.