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90 CLASSICAL TOUR ChA.
full bloom of youth and beauty, and the first so-
vereign in Europe in title and in territorial pos-
sessions, continued ever after to wear mourning:
and to some subsequent matrimonial overtures,
is said to have replied in the animated lines of
Virgil,
Hie, meos primus qui me sibi junxit amoves,
Abstulit, ille habeat secuni servetque sepulcro !
The inscription runs as follows, and breathes
more grief than elegance.
o o
D: Ο: M.
Memoriae eternae fati, quo
Prineeps optimus
Throni decus
Populi Delicite
Franciscus D : G : Rom: Imp : Aug :
Germ : & Jerus. Rex
M : D : Het: Loth et Bur : D.
XVIII Aug: MDCCLXV.
Vitae hie loci et nobis ereptus
Monumentum posteritati positum-
I shall say nothingof the magnificent cenotaph
of the Emperor Maximilian in the church of the
Franciscans, with its sculptured pannels and
bronze statues; nor of the humble cells of the
Achduke of the same name in the convent of the
Capuchins, but proceed to a much nobler object
full bloom of youth and beauty, and the first so-
vereign in Europe in title and in territorial pos-
sessions, continued ever after to wear mourning:
and to some subsequent matrimonial overtures,
is said to have replied in the animated lines of
Virgil,
Hie, meos primus qui me sibi junxit amoves,
Abstulit, ille habeat secuni servetque sepulcro !
The inscription runs as follows, and breathes
more grief than elegance.
o o
D: Ο: M.
Memoriae eternae fati, quo
Prineeps optimus
Throni decus
Populi Delicite
Franciscus D : G : Rom: Imp : Aug :
Germ : & Jerus. Rex
M : D : Het: Loth et Bur : D.
XVIII Aug: MDCCLXV.
Vitae hie loci et nobis ereptus
Monumentum posteritati positum-
I shall say nothingof the magnificent cenotaph
of the Emperor Maximilian in the church of the
Franciscans, with its sculptured pannels and
bronze statues; nor of the humble cells of the
Achduke of the same name in the convent of the
Capuchins, but proceed to a much nobler object