Category: Humour
Although this country may be behind many others in the poetic or classic character of its monumental inscriptions, it is certainly not so in the production of Epitaphs of a curious and absurd character. Whether it is that the British are, as a nation, witty and humorous, and t...
Although this country may be behind many others in the poetic or classic character of its monumental inscriptions, it is certainly not so in the production of Epitaphs of a curi...
2. Part 2Here lies the swift racer; so fam'd for his running, In spite of his boasting, his swiftness and cunning, In leaping o'er hedges, and skipping o'er fields, Death soon overtook h...
3. Part 3In token of whose vertuous lyfe, And constant sacred love, And that her memory should remaine, And never hence remove, Her husband, in his tyme of lyfe, This monument did leave...
4. Part 4The world's an Inn, and I her guest: I've eat and drank and took my rest, With her awhile, and now I pay Her lavish bill and go my way.
5. Part 5When on this spot, affection's down-cast eye The lucid tribute shall no more bestow; When Friendship's breast no more shall heave a sigh, In kind remembrance of the dust below;
6. Part 6"Can the inhabitants of Ravenstonedale look at either of these monuments without blushing? Can the freeholders of that parish look at the latter, and not consider it prophetical...
7. Part 7Dead drunk, here Elderton doth lie: Dead as he is, he still is dry; So of him it may well be said, Here he, but not his thirst, is laid.
8. Part 8Thomas Knolles lies under this stone, And his wife Isabell: flesh and bone They were together nineteen year, And ten children they had in fear. His fader & he to this church Man...
9. Part 9Bene: AT. HT, Hi S: ST-- Oneli: E: Skat. . He, Ri, N. eg. Rayc-- (Hang'd) . F . R. O! mab. V, Syli, Fetol-- IF . . Ele: (SSCL) Ayb... Year. . Than. Dcl--Ays : Hego. Therpel: . F...