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234 EPITAPH EPITAPH

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Howe: Howe: whoisheare:
I, Robin of Doncaster, and Margaret my feare.
That I spent, that I had;
That I gave, that I have;
That I left, that I lost.
Epitaph of Robert Byrkes, in Doncaster Church. Richard Gouqh—Sepulchral Monuments of Great Britain.

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The earthe goeth on the earthe
Glisteringe like gold;
The earthe goeth to the earthe
Sooner than it wold;
The earthe builds on the earthe
Castles and Towers;
The earthe says to the earthe
All shall be ours.
Epitaph in T. F. Ravenshaw's Antiente Epitaphes. (1878) P. 158. Aho in The Scotch
Haggis. Edinburgh, 1822. For variation
of same see Montgomery—Christian Poets.
P. 58. 3rd ed. Note states it is by
William Billyng, Five Wounds of Christ.
From an old MS. in the possession of
William Bateman, of Manchester. The
epitaph to Archbishop of Canterbury,
time of Edward III, is the same. See
Weaver's Funeral Monuments. (1631)
Facsimile discovered in the chapel of the
Guild of the Holy Cross, at Stratford. See
Fisher's Illustrations of the Paintings, etc.
(1802) Ed. by J. G. Nichols.


Earth walks on Earth,
Glittering in gold;
Earth goes to Earth,
Sooner than it wold;
Earth builds on Earth,
Palaces and towers;
Earth says to Earth,
Soon, all shall be ours.
Scott—Unpublished Epigram. In Notes and
Queries. May 21, 1853. P. 498.


Traveller, let your step be light,
So that sleep these eyes may close,
For poor Scarron, till to-night,
Ne'er was able e'en to doze.
Scarron—Epitaph written by himself.


Sit tua terra levis.
May the earth rest lightly on thee.
Seneca—Epigram II. Ad Corsican.
Martial—Epigram V. 35; IX. 30. 11.
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 | text = <poem>Good Frend for Jesvs Sake Forbeare,
To Digg the Dvst Encloased Heare.
Blese be ye Man yt Spares Thes Stones.
And Cvrst be he yt Moves my Bones.
Epitaph on Shakrsprare's Tombstone at Stratford-on-Avon. (Said to be chosen by him,
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 | text = <poem>After your death you were better have a bad
epitaph than their ill report while you live.
Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 548.
Either our history shall with full mouth
Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave,
Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless
mouth',
Not worshipp'd with a waxen epitaph.

Henry V. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 230.


You cannot better be employ'd, Bassanio,
Than to live still and write mine epitaph.
Merchant of Venice. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 117.


On your family's old monument
Hang mournful epitaphs.
Much Ado About Nothing. Act IV. Sc. 1.
L. 208.


And if your love
Can labour aught in sad invention,
Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb
And sing it to her bones, sing it to-night.
Much Ado About Nothing. Act V. Sc. 1. L.
291.


Of comfort no man speak:
Let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs.
Richard II. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 144.


These are two friends whose lives were undivided :
So let their memory be, now they have glided
Under the grave; let not their bones be parted,
For their two hearts in life were single-hearted.
Shelley—Epitaph.


He will be weighed again
At the Great Day,
His rigging refitted,
And his timbers repaired,
And with one broadside
Make his adversary
Strike in his turn.
Smollett—Peregrine Pickle. Vol. III. Ch.
VII. Epitaph on Commodore Trunnion.
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 | text = <poem>Let no man write my epitaph ; let my grave
Be uninscribed, and let my memory rest
Tul other times are come, and other men,
Who then may do me justice.

Southey. Written after Reading the Speech of Robert Emmet.
(See also Emmet)


The turf has drank a
Widow's tear;
Three of her husbands
Slumber here.
Epitaph at Staffordshire.


Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed
much.
Stevenson—Christmas Sermon.


I, whom Apollo sometime visited,
Or feigned to visit, now, my day being done,
Do slumber wholly, nor shall know at all
The weariness of changes; nor perceive
Immeasurable sands of centuries
Drink up the blanching ink, or the loud sound
Of generations beat the music down.
Stevenson. Epitaph for himself.