INSCRIPTIONFOR THE GRANITE SARCOPHAGUS BROUGHT FROM ALEXANDRIA TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
This was the tomb of Alexander,The Macedonian great Commander,Who dealt about his killing blowsAlike among his friends and foes:Who went on plundering, burning, stabbing,Carouzing, catamiting, drabbing,Kept a Castrato[25]for his punk,And died[26]heroically drunk:And if at last he went to hell,I warrant he deserved it well;Whate’er is said by flatt’ring Mitford,Who thinks he is gone to heav’n, and fit for ’t.
This was the tomb of Alexander,The Macedonian great Commander,Who dealt about his killing blowsAlike among his friends and foes:Who went on plundering, burning, stabbing,Carouzing, catamiting, drabbing,Kept a Castrato[25]for his punk,And died[26]heroically drunk:And if at last he went to hell,I warrant he deserved it well;Whate’er is said by flatt’ring Mitford,Who thinks he is gone to heav’n, and fit for ’t.
This was the tomb of Alexander,The Macedonian great Commander,Who dealt about his killing blowsAlike among his friends and foes:Who went on plundering, burning, stabbing,Carouzing, catamiting, drabbing,Kept a Castrato[25]for his punk,And died[26]heroically drunk:And if at last he went to hell,I warrant he deserved it well;Whate’er is said by flatt’ring Mitford,Who thinks he is gone to heav’n, and fit for ’t.
This was the tomb of Alexander,
The Macedonian great Commander,
Who dealt about his killing blows
Alike among his friends and foes:
Who went on plundering, burning, stabbing,
Carouzing, catamiting, drabbing,
Kept a Castrato[25]for his punk,
And died[26]heroically drunk:
And if at last he went to hell,
I warrant he deserved it well;
Whate’er is said by flatt’ring Mitford,
Who thinks he is gone to heav’n, and fit for ’t.
[25]Q. Curt. b. x. c. 3. &c.[26]Athenæus, b. 10. c. 9. p. 434. Αλεξανδρος λαβων (το ποτηριον)εσπασεμενγενναιως,——εκ τουτου νοσησας απεθανε. Alexander took the cup, andpulled noblyat it.Mem. It held near a gallon, and he had emptied it once already.
[25]Q. Curt. b. x. c. 3. &c.
[25]Q. Curt. b. x. c. 3. &c.
[26]Athenæus, b. 10. c. 9. p. 434. Αλεξανδρος λαβων (το ποτηριον)εσπασεμενγενναιως,——εκ τουτου νοσησας απεθανε. Alexander took the cup, andpulled noblyat it.Mem. It held near a gallon, and he had emptied it once already.
[26]Athenæus, b. 10. c. 9. p. 434. Αλεξανδρος λαβων (το ποτηριον)εσπασεμενγενναιως,——εκ τουτου νοσησας απεθανε. Alexander took the cup, andpulled noblyat it.
Mem. It held near a gallon, and he had emptied it once already.