Here lies poor JOHNSON. Reader, have a care,
Tread lightly, lest you rouse a sleeping bear;
Religious — moral — gen'rous and humane
He was — but self-sufficient, rude and vain:
Ill-bred and overbearing in dispute,
A scholar and a Christian — yet a brute.
Would you know all his wisdom and his folly,
His actions — sayings — mirth and melancholy,
BOSWELL and THRALE, retailers of his wit,
Will tell you how he wrote, and talk'd, and cough'd, and spit.
This is Soame Jenyns' "Epitaph on Dr. Johnson," which seems accurate.