David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Since thou — the mind’s celestial ease and mirth—
The greatest happiness we have on earth —
By heav'n art fixed in her that gave me birth;
My life’s dear author, may your virtuous soul
Pursue the glorious race, and win the goal. ”

“ The chance profits on benefit nights brought more into his pockets than the sale of his plays to the booksellers.” He died at the age of seventy. His memorial-stone, on the south wall of St James’s Church, Piccadilly, gives as the date of his death 26th February 1723. Le Neve, in his MS. diary quoted by Rimbault, says “D’Urfey, Thomas, the poet, ingenious for witty madrigals, buried Tuesday, 26th day of February, 1722-23, in St James’s Church, Middlesex, at the charge of the Duke of Dorset.” ”