An elegy on the lamented death of the electrical eel, or gymnotus electricus : with the lapidary inscription, as placed on a superb erection, at the expence of the Countess of H---------, and Chevalier-Madame d'Eon de Beaumont / By Lucretia Lovejoy [pseud.], sister to Mr. Adam Strong, author of the Electrical eel.

Date:
1777
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An elegy on the lamented death of the electrical eel, or gymnotus electricus : with the lapidary inscription, as placed on a superb erection, at the expence of the Countess of H---------, and Chevalier-Madame d'Eon de Beaumont / By Lucretia Lovejoy [pseud.], sister to Mr. Adam Strong, author of the Electrical eel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This have I feen—and yet anon his length, “ By little labour has been fo reduc’d-— “ That he poor foul had neither heart or ftrength, “ To ftand or naove, and yet was little us’d. “ One eve I mifs’d him on the happy fpot, “ Where oft he met beneath his fav’rite tree A beauteous damfel, of a neighbouring cot, “ For Feats of love and true felicity. Nor at the tree, nor with the maid was he, “ No not a glimmering of .his lengthen’d ghoft : But when I fipp’d my elemental tea. This epitaph adorn'd the Morning Toil,” C T H E