RARE OR CURIOUS EPITAPHS.
* Uncles and brothers have I none, Yet this man's father was my father's son.’ The following Latin inscription was placed by Dr. James on a Rugby boy’s tomb in the churchyard at Rugby :— • Innocens et perbeatus more florum decidi. Quid, viator, fles, sepultum, fleute sum felicior.' ‘ Like flowers I fell in Life’s fresh bloom. Thrice happy, pure from earthly spot; Stranger, why mourn beside, my tombe ? Weep not; more blest than thine my jot.’ In Sparsholt churchyard, near Winchester, is this epitaph, dated A. D. 1718 :— ‘ Thee like a lily. Fresh and green. Soon is cut down, No more is seen.' I will add but one more—savouring rather of a didactic. It is from Almondbury church, near Bristol, on an old man :— * His age wasaynchant, Neere seventy-nine : Death bee hath paid. And thou must pay thine.’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue II, 14 July 1894, Page 47
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140RARE OR CURIOUS EPITAPHS. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue II, 14 July 1894, Page 47
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