Curious Epitaphs

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A., _Author of "Verdant Green," etc._, AS A TOKEN OF GRATITUDE FOR LITERARY ASSISTANCE AND SYMPATHY GIVEN IN YEARS AGONE...

Like to the baker's oven is the grave, Wherein the bodyes of the faithful have A setting in, and where they do remain In hopes to rise, and to be drawn again; Blessed are they w...

To the Memory of MARY BEACH Who died Nov. 5th 1725, Aged 78. Alexander Pope whom she nursed in his infancy and constantly attended for 38 years, in gratitude to a faithful old s...

Here lies, retired from busy scenes, A first lieutenant of Marines, Who lately lived in gay content On board the brave ship "Diligent." Now stripp'd of all his warlike show, And...

The next epitaph was written by Swift on Dicky Pearce, who died 1728, aged 63 years. He was a famous fool, and his name carries us back to the time when kings and noblemen emplo...

Assign'd by Providence to rule a tap, My days pass'd glibly, till an awkward rap, Some way, like bankruptcy, impell'd me down. But up I got again and shook my gown In gamesome g...

You see OLD SCARLETT'S picture stand on hie; But at your feet here doth his body lye. His gravestone doth his age and death-time shew, His office by heis token[s] you may know....

It is worthy of note that he was the first to set up, for the public accommodation of visitors to Harrogate, a four-wheeled chaise and a one-horse chair; these he kept for two s...

"This singular epitaph points out the last resting-place of Henry Marten, one of the judges who condemned King Charles I. to the scaffold. On the Restoration, Marten was sentenc...

In memory of his Genius and his Art, His matchless Industry and worthy Work For all his fellow-men, This monument Is humbly placed within this sacred Fane By her who loved him b...

In the churchyard of Kirk Hallam, Derbyshire, a good specimen of a true Englishman is buried, named Samuel Cleater, who died May 1st, 1811, aged 65 years. The two-lined epitaph...