Sets donia civ find ima Yn, fit" nog of Srchanisfwe frfar rather (nelned'ts ult rental "ieoe, tet otnet or ite dour at tneth But nevertheless in many grave-) sorsame. was Pri Houbtless testify, are amusing ood, although whether they. intended to be 30, when written, is another matter altogether.
Note the breeees. The married life of another ome of the best of these quaint couple, na "auegeats the author memorials found in old English of this little book, appears to have yards have now been gathered to-Doon much less tranquil, to judge gether in one small book, "Striking by the record left above' the wife's Epitaphs," by J. P. Donovan (Steel well 1/-} and many of them are nave and evidently written by the striking indeed. Stones dedicated Here lies wife; poor Molly! let to the memory of women seem to have inspired the writers of them more greatly, And their inspire The theory of "dust to dust" ations differed widely, seems to have been greatly favoured It is popularly supposed that, by the writers of several tombstones, when one has once retired definitely The verse to Nell Datehelor the from the strife of life, one is free Oxford Piewoman reads: from the calumnies of living ton-Mere into the dust gues, and that those left behind are The: smouldering crust charitably inclined to take the ad vice of Matthew Prior:
Of Eleanor Matchelor's shaven; Well versed Bo to her virtues very kind Be to her faults a Tittle blind, That this, however, is not always 0, is clearly shown by a stone standing to this day in the Bideford Churchyard in Devonshire, The Writer of the memorial was evidently one of those rare people capable of Ailing two birds with one stone. This is the epitaph; Rived Nang enough, riga her la a Rove More: she doth ties her husband nach prai
And maker dust In hope that her eruat shall be ras While another, "On an old woman who sold pots at Chester," seems to take much the same view.
Beneath this stone Gray lies Cath'rine rth here An extreme champion of Feminism in its most advanced form was evidently responsible for the lines which appear in an Essux churchyard over the last resting place of Richard and Mary Pritchard:
Here ion the Richard 'And' Mary his "wit weeping friends, let me advise, Your grief and dry sour what avails a ood' often The writer of this, however, ax remarks the author, must have been, either a believer in''the transmigra. tion of souls or an advocate for
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