First Line	Here lies poor Johnson: reader have a care,
Author	Soame Jenyns
Date	1790
Description	Epitaph. Transcribed from 'On Dr. Johnson. Said to be written by Soame Jenyns Esqre." Brotherton Lt. 99, p. 114. Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.

Transcription

Here lies poor Johnson: reader have a care

Tread lightly, lest you rouse a sleeping bear;

Religious, moral, gen'rous & humane

He was; but self-sufficient, rude & vain:

Ill-bred, & overbearing in dispute;

A scholar, & a Christian - yet a brute -

Wou'd you know all his wisdom & his folly,

His actions, saying, mirth & melancholy,

Boswell & Thrale, retailers of his wit,

Will tell you how he wrote, & talked, & cough'd, & spit.

Beinecke Osborn c688

Title	Untitled
Period	1761-1790 , 1791-1820
Archive	Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Page: 28

Local title: On Dr Johnson

Attributed author: Soame Jenyns

Adaptation: n/a

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Beinecke Osborn d80

Title	Untitled
Period	1791-1820
Archive	Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Page: 7

Local title: Epitaph on Dr. Johnson.

Attributed author: n/a

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Leeds Brotherton Lt 99

Title	Old Songs & other Poems.
Period	1761-1790
Archive	Brotherton Library

p. 115

Local title: On Dr. Johnson. Said to be written by Soame Jenyns Esqre.

Attributed author: Soame Jenyns

Adaptation: n/a

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Other: Note at end: Pub'd 1790

UChicago Library Codex Ms. 581

Title	Untitled
Period	1761-1790
Archive	University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center

f. 414 - p. 417

Local title: Epitaph on Dr Johnson by I Jennings Esqr 20.5.86

Attributed author: Soame Jenyns

Adaptation: n/a

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UChicago Library Codex Ms. 69

Title	Poetry miscellany
Period	1761-1790 , 1791-1820
Archive	University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center

Pg: 21f, repeated on 43v.

Local title: Johnsoniana

Attributed author: n/a

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