David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ The stones dispersed, a wretched offspring come,
Gather, and heap them on their fathers’ tomb.
Thus a curs’d house falls on the builder’s head.
Although beneath the ground their bones are laid,
Yet the just vengeance still pursues the guilty dead. ”

“ By Isaac Du Bourdieu, D.D., one of the ministers of the French church in the Savoy, the 29th May 1684.” The English translation was dedicated to Henry Savile. An Appendix contains lists of names, &c, connected with the persecutions in France. One outrage was the demolition of the author’s church. On that event two rival epigrams (translated by Isaac Watts D.D.) were written. First, a Jesuit sang:—
“A Hug’nots’ Temple, at Montpellier built,
Stood, and proclaimed their madness and their guilt;
Too long it stood beneath heav’n’s angry frown,
Worthy, when rising, to be thundered down. ”