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قراءة كتاب Funny Epitaphs
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class="i0">Here lies the body of Sarah Sexton,
Who as a wife did never vex one.
We can't say that for her at the next stone.
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Here lies the body of Ann Mann,
Who lived an old woman,
And died an old Mann.
Who lived an old woman,
And died an old Mann.
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Epitaph on Lady Molesworth. Burnt to death 6 May, 1763:
A peerless matron, pride of female life
In every state, as widow, maid, or wife;
Who wedded, to threescore preserved her fame,
She lived a phœnix, and expired in flame.
In every state, as widow, maid, or wife;
Who wedded, to threescore preserved her fame,
She lived a phœnix, and expired in flame.
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A Welsh husband thus sings above the grave of his better-half:
This spot is the sweetest I've seen in my life,
For it raises my flowers and covers my wife.
For it raises my flowers and covers my wife.
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At Wolstanton:
MRS. ANN JENNINGS.
Some have children, some have none;
Here lies the mother of twenty-one.
Here lies the mother of twenty-one.
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This corpse
Is Phœbe Thorp's.
Is Phœbe Thorp's.
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In memory of the "Wigtown Martyrs:"
Here lyes Margrat Willson, Doughter of Gilbert Willson, in Glenvernoch, who was Drowned Anno 1685, age 18.
Let Earth and stone still witness beare
Their lyes a virgine Martyre Here,
Marter'd for owning Christ Supream
Head of his church and no more crime
But not abjuring Presbytry
And not owning Prelacy.
They her condemned by unjust law,
Within the Sea Ty'd to a stake.
The actors of this cruel crime
Was Lagg Strachan, Winram, and Graham.
Neither young years nor yet old age
Could stop the fury of their rage.
Their lyes a virgine Martyre Here,
Marter'd for owning Christ Supream
Head of his church and no more crime
But not abjuring Presbytry
And not owning Prelacy.
They her condemned by unjust law,
Within the Sea Ty'd to a stake.
The actors of this cruel crime
Was Lagg Strachan, Winram, and Graham.
Neither young years nor yet old age
Could stop the fury of their rage.
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From Nettlebed Churchyard, Oxfordshire:
Here lies father, and mother, and sister, and I;
We all died within the space of one short year;
They were all buried at Wimble except I,
And I be buried here.
We all died within the space of one short year;
They were all buried at Wimble except I,
And I be buried here.
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Commemorative of Thamozine J., wife of James Vernon:
'Tis with regret, dear Thamozine,
Her voice no more to hear,
I'll banish from my heart
Her groanings in my ear.
Her voice no more to hear,
I'll banish from my heart
Her groanings in my ear.
Her children were her care,
To me she did request,
Take care and with them share
On your honesty I can
To me she did request,
Take care and with them share
On your honesty I can