All ranks in him a mighty loss sustain, Both rich and poor, the noble and the mean; For why? his services did far extend Through town and country to the kingdom’s end; The whole to him in obligations bound, As to his honour ever will redound. Revere his memory, and his death lament, As well becomes, with uniform assent; Your high concern by loud encomiums show, Unite the shout of praise and tear of woe; Your warm effusions only can reveal (And faintly too) what every heart must feel. This benefactor lost, the meaner man May quiver, and so he will, that’s all he can; Let those descended of a station higher, To imitate his virtuous life aspire; Transcribe the bright example set by him, Best way to evidence their true esteem. May after generations who succeed, From Register, his famed remembrance read. Alive his character afar was known, So may it long continue when he’s gone; And let the undissembled voice of fame To distant ages celebrate his name— A name of veneration and respect, Of honour and esteem, Lord Auchinleck.” On Friday, the 21st March, 1783, Boswell arrived in London. He found Dr. Johnson at Mrs. Thrale’s in feeble health. As on former occasions, the friends worshipped together in St. Clement’s Church on Good Friday, while Boswell again kept Easter in St. Paul’s. When congratulating his friend on his position as a landowner, Dr. Johnson unsparingly exposed his egotism. “Boswell,” said he, “you often vaunt so much, as to provoke ridicule. You put me in mind of a man who was standing in the kitchen of an inn with his back to the fire, and thus accosted the person next him:—‘Do you know, sir, who I am?’ ‘No, sir,’ said the other, ‘I have not that advantage.’ ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘I am the great Twamley, who invented the new floodgate iron.’”[71] Boswell left London for Scotland on the 29th of May. From Dr. Johnson he received these parting counsels:—“Get as much force of mind as you can. Live within your income. Always have something saved at the end of the year. Let your imports be more than your exports, and you’ll never go far wrong.”