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NYWJ.741.030
17 Aug 1741:22 (402)
Written on occasion of the death of Sir Thomas Parkyn's, a
famous wrestler, whose statue was placed on a monument in a
wrestling posture with Time.
Tempus,
Quem modo stravisti longo in certamine
Hic recubar Britonum clarus in Obepugil.
Jam primum stratus praeter te vicerat omnes;
De te etiam victor quando resurgit erit.
Thus translated
Here, thrown by Time, old Parkyn's laid;
The first fair fall he ever had:
Nor Time without the aid of Death,
Could e'er have put him out of breath:
All else he threw, and will those twain,
As soon as he gets up again.
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