The epitaph, here translated by Dryden, was originally written in Latin by Dr Pitcairn, remarkable for genius and learning, as well as for Jacobitism. It will hardly be disputed, that the original is much superior to the translation, though the last be written by Dryden. In the second couplet alone, the translator has improved upon his original: IN MORTEM VICECOMITIS TAODUNENSIS. ULTIME SCOTORUM! POTUIT, QUO SOSPITE SOLO, LIBERTAS PATRIÆ SALVA FUISSE TUÆ; TE MORIENTE NOVOS ACCEPIT SCOTIA CIVES, ACCEPITQUE NOVOS, TE MORIENTE, DEOS. ILLA TIBI SUPERESSE NEGAT, TU NON POTES ILLI, ERGO CALEDONIÆ NOMEN INANE, VALE! TUQUE VALE, GENTIS PRISCÆ FORTISSIME DUCTOR, Some editions of this celebrated epitaph, which seem to have been followed by Dryden, read the last line thus: _Ultime Scotorum atque optime, Grame, Vale._ But there is something national in calling Dundee the last of Scots, and the last of Grames, a race distinguished for patriotism in the struggles against England, and on this principle the last reading should be preferred. UPON THE DEATH OF THE VISCOUNT OF DUNDEE. Oh last and best of Scots! who didst maintain Thy country's freedom from a foreign reign; New people fill the land now thou art gone, New gods the temples, and new kings the throne. Scotland and thou did each in other live; Nor would'st thou her, nor could she thee survive. Farewell! who, dying, didst support the state, And couldst not fall but with thy country's fate. ELEONORA: A PANEGYRICAL POEM, DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE COUNTESS OF ABINGDON. ----_Superas evadere per auras, Hoc opus, hic labor est. Pauci quos æquus amavit Jupiter, aut ardens evixit ad æthera virtus, Diis geniti potuere._ VIRGIL. Æneid. lib. vi. ELEONORA. MR. MALONE has given a full account of the lady in whose honour this poem was written: "Eleonora, eldest daughter, and at length sole heir, of Sir Henry Lee, of Ditchley, in the county of Oxford, Baronet, by Anne, daughter of Sir John Danvers, and sister and heir to Henry Danvers, Esq., who was nephew and heir to Henry, Earl of Danby: She was the wife of James Bertie, first Earl of Abingdon, and died May 31, 1691. Her lord, in 1698, married a second wife, Catharine, daughter of Sir Thomas Chamberlaine, Bart."