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And this is on q collier :

And this is on a collier:
Here lies the collier, John OF Washes,
BY whom death nothing gained, he sworc:
For. living. he was dust and ashes.
And being dead, he is no more.
In Stepney churchyard, London, is
the following quaint epitaph On Captain
John bunch, who died in 1857:
Though Borcas' blasts and Neptune's
waves
Have tossed ME to and fro,
In spight Of both, by Gods decree,
l anchor here below.
Where l do now at anchor ride
With many of our fleet
Yet once rain l must set sail,
Our Admiral, Christ, to meet.
This is OH a noted iuggler:
Death came to see thy tricks, and cut in twain
Thy thread-why didst not make 1t whole
again?
This on Little Stephen, a famous SUI
folk fiddler:
Stephen and Time are now both even:
Stephen beat Time; now Time 5 beat Stephen.
On O notorious miscr:
Here lycth'Father Sparges,
Who died to save charges.
On a lawyer named Strange:
Here lies an honest lawyer-that's Strange 3!
And this is on an old woman who kepta
pottery shop at Chester:
Beneath this stone hes old Katherine Gray,
Changed from q busy life to ~life,ess clay:
By eorth and clay she got her pelf.
But now is turned to earth herself.
= Ye weeping friends, let me advise,
!Abetc your grief and dry your eyes:
For what avails flood of tears?
Who knows, but in a run Of YEAR,,
In some tall pitcher or broad pan
She in her shop may be again?
In q village churchyarl in Norfolk is
this laconic record
Here lies james Bum,
Shot by n gun.
Perhaps the most curious Of laconic
epitapllS is that in the New Church,
Amsterdam :
Ellen MT
Flemish words, meaning crGctly. These
words are inscribed on IN ancient monu-
ment of whitish marble, on Which there
is also sculptured a pair of slippers.
The story runs that 4 gentlema1
who was tolcrably wealthy, and loved
above all things good living, conceived
the notion That he would only live q
certain number of years, and DESTROYS to
leave Zone Of his wealth %unenioyed, be
made a nice calculation of his fortune,
which he so apport:oned for every year
he wa to live according to his W
notion as to last exactly the same time
with his life. Curiously enough, it SO
happened that his calculations did not
deceive him, for he died exactly at the
time he hid previously reckoned, anu
had then so far exhausted his estate
that, after paying his debts, there was
nothing left but Il pair OF slippers. His
relatives buried him, AMI caused the
slippers to be carved ON his tomb, with
the laconic epitaph, exactly.
Here lies the man Richard.
And Mary his wife:
Their surname was Pritchard,
They lived without strife:
And the reason was plain
hey abouudel in riches,
They nc care had o rpain,
And the wife wore the breeches.
This is on a Mr.. Bywater:
Here lie the remains Of his relatives pride,
Bywater lie lived, and by water ne dleu
Though by water he fell, yet by water he'll
rise.
By water bapti'mal attaining the skies.
On a marine officer
Here lies, retired from busy scenes,
4 first lieutenant Of marines,
Who lately lived in peace and plenty
On board the ship the ATLANTA
Nov, stripped of all his warlike show,
And laid in b X Of elm below,
Confined to earth III narrow borders.
He rises not till further orders.
In the churchyard Of Linton is the fol.
lowing inscription, designed. no doubt,
"to teach the rustic moralist to die:
Remember, man, that passeth by,
As thou is now, SO once was |;
And AZ | is so must thou be:
Prepare myself to follow me.
Underneath some irreverent wag
wrote
follow You is not my intent,
Unless l know which way you went.