Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-04-01
ENGLISH EPITAPHs.

We are enabled to make an interest
ing addition to the collection Of Curl
Gus epitaphs which We recently pub
lished in an article by Frances Power
Cobbe.
At the west end of the churchyard
in Blackwell, county Of Derby, England,
is an old stone, to the memory Of John
Dale, with this inscriptions
Know. posterity. that on the sth Of April.
in the year Of trace. l7SI. the rambling renGins
Of the above said John Dale were. in the S6th
year of his pilgrimage. laid upon his two Wivss
'This thing in life might cause some jealouSy
Here all three lie together lovingly;
! But from embraces here no pleasure flows,
Alike are here all human joys and woes;
Here Sarah's chidings John no longer hears.
And old Johns rambling Sarah no more fears /:
A periods come to all their toilsome lives
The good mans quiet. still are both his wives"
In the c~hurchysrd of Chelmsford
and Boston, England, are the follow
ing:
Here lies the man Richard.
And Mary his wife;
There surname was Pritehard;
They lived without STRIFE"
So far good
And the reason was plain
They abounded in riches,
Iney had no care or pain,
And the wife wore the breeches.'
Again
Underneath this stone doth lie,
Back to back, my wife andI.
Free from noise. and free from strife,
happier far than When in life!
When the last trump the air shall fill.
II she gets up, I'll lie STILL"
Again -
Here lies. alas, poor Roger Norton.
nose sudden death was oddly brought on,
Trying one day his eorns 70 NOW 81.
Ine razor sllpt and cut his toe OF;
The toe. or rather what it grew to,
An quickly few TO,
Inc part then took 10 mOrtifyinE,
Which was the cauIe Of Rogers dying"
The followingis an epitaph on a man
who was too poor to be buried wit b his
relations in the church of Kingsbridge =:
Here lie ], at the ehancel door;
Here lei. because I'm poor;
The further in. the more to pay;
Here lie l as warm as they
Irish tombstones are not EXEMPT
from Irish bulls. In Belturbet church
yard may be found the foIlowing:-
Here lies John Hishlsy whose father and
mother were drowned in their passage from
America. Had they both lived. they would have
been buried here"
The following, on the modern cook,
Soyer, is not bad -
"soysT tranquile." Be Quiet)
The epitaph on DR.. Walker, who
wrote a grammatical work on the En-
glish Particles, was brief but expressive.
Thus
Here lies Walkers Particles
This calls to mind the brief inscrip-
ton on the tomb of the famous DR.
Fuller. Thus:
Here lies FuIlsr's earth"
In a c~hurchysrd in Essex is the fol-
lowing couplet, on the headstone Of a
a nan who died in debt
Lord. thy grace is free.
Then, why not former"
Upon which one of his creditors
wrote =
And the Lord answered and said,
Because thy debts are not paid.
In St. Pancras' ~churchyaId there is
this inscription =
As am now. 50 you must be;
Therefore, prepare to follow me-"
The celebrated Rev. W. Huntington
wrote under the couplet thus
ITO follow you I'm not intent, ,
Till l can learn which way you went"
On Nj. Huddleston -
Here lies Thomas Huddlestons reader don't
But reflect as this tombstone you view.
That death. Hho killed him. in q very short
while.
Will huddle q stone upon you"
The following epitaph is to be found
in the churchyard Of Upton-on-SeTern
Beneath this stone. in hope Of Zion,
Doth lie the landlord Of the Lion
His son keeps on the business still.
Resigned unto the heavenly will"
SOS~s
What can be a more desolate specta-