The tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony; Where words are scarce they're seldom spent in vain, For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain. --_Shakspeare_ Neither is there anything of which I am so inquisitive, and delight to inform myself, as the manner of men's deaths, their words, looks, and bearing; nor any places in history I am so intent upon; and it is manifest enough, by my crowding in examples of this kind, that I have a particular fancy for that subject. If I were a writer of books, I would compile a register, with a comment, of the various deaths of men: he who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live.--MONTAIGNE.…
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