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Select and Remarkable Epitaphs [Vol. 2] [T27439] [ECCO]

DMI number:
1212
Publication Date:
1757
Volume Number:
2 of 2
ESTC number:
T27439
EEBO/ECCO link:
CW3302442998
Full Title:
SELECT and REMARKABLE | EPITAPHS | ON | ILLUSTRIOUS and OTHER PERSONS, | IN | SEVERAL PARTS of EUROPE. | WITH | TRANSLATIONS | Of such as are in | LATIN and Foreign LANGUAGES. | AND | Compendious Accounts of the DECEASED, | Their LIVES and WORKS | [Rule] | By JOHN HACKETT, | Late Commoner of BALIOL-COLLEGE, OXFORD. | [Rule] | [Epigraph] | [Rule] In TWO VOLUMES | [Rule] | VOL. II | [Double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for T. OSBORNE, and J. SHIPTON, in GRAY'S-INN. | [Short rule] | M.DCC.LVII.
Epigraph:
Life's but a walking Shadow, a poor Play'r That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; it is a Tale Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing.--------- Shakespeare, Macbeth &c.
Place of Publication:
London
Format:
Duodecimo
Other matter:
Dedication, 1p. Index to the First Volume, 12pp. Index to the Second Volume, 9pp.
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Publisher:
J Shipton
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
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Author:
John Hackett
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Publisher:
Thomas II Osborne
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Content/Publication
First Line:
Farewell thou child of my right hand and joy
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p.1
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Ben Jonson.
Attributed To:
Benjamin Jonson
First Line:
Admired beloved lamented infancy
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p.5
Poem Title:
St. Mary Magdalen, Bermodsey.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Beneath this smooth stone by the bone of his bone
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p.6
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
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First Line:
Here lies the learned Saville's heir
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pp.6-7
Poem Title:
On the Lady Sidly.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Edmund Waller
First Line:
A maid near eighteen we have laid in this green
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p.7
Poem Title:
St. John's. at Hackney. Peninnah Juckes.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
As nurses strive to bed their babes to hie
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p.7
Poem Title:
St. Leonard's, Bromley.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Thornton of Thornton in Yorkshire bred
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p.9
Poem Title:
St. Giles's in the Fields, London.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Hither no tears but garlands bring
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p.10
Poem Title:
St. James's, Clerkenwell, London.
Attribution:
M.S.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Here lies little -- a yard deeper more
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p.11
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
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First Line:
Great artisan grave senator John Milne
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p.12
Poem Title:
Old Gray-Friers Church, Edin.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Here lieth John Brigge under this marble stone
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p.12
Poem Title:
St. Peter's, Norwich.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Here lies the corpse of Lady Ann
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p.13
Poem Title:
St. Peter's Norwich.
Attribution:
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First Line:
In dawn of life she wisely sought her god
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p.13
Poem Title:
On Miss * * * *.
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First Line:
Lie light upon him earth though he
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p.13
Poem Title:
On Sir John Vanbrugh, the Architect.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Tis mine today to moulder in the tomb
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p.14
Poem Title:
St. John Baptist's, Norwich.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Complete in all but days resigned her breath
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p.15
Poem Title:
On a stone in St. Mary Magdalen's, Bermondsey, 1694.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
To this sad shrine whoever thou art draw near
Page No:
p.15
Poem Title:
Stanton-Harcourt. On the Hon. Simon Harcourt, Only Son of the Lord Chancellor Harcourt. 1720.
Attribution:
A. Pope.
Attributed To:
Alexander Pope
First Line:
Whilst fate allowed I sung of kings and Gods
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p.18
Poem Title:
St. Vitalis, Ravenna.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
The maid that owns this humble stone
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pp.19-20
Poem Title:
[no title]
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Contented with an old estate
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p.20
Poem Title:
Waller on Sir George Speks.
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First Line:
Unmarked by trophies of the great and vain
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p.20
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
* * * * *.
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Not attributed
First Line:
Wouldst thou hear what man can say
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p.20
Poem Title:
On Elizabeth, L-- H--.
Attribution:
Ben Jonson.
Attributed To:
Benjamin Jonson
First Line:
He that hath many an ancient tombstone read
Page No:
pp.23-24
Poem Title:
St. Stephen's, Coleman-street, London.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Here lieth Katherine Prettyman
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p.24
Poem Title:
St. Bennet's, London.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Peculiar blessings bear the shortest date
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p.25
Poem Title:
St. Mary, Aldermanbury, London.
Attribution:
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First Line:
When he left earth rich bounty died
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p.26
Poem Title:
St. Martin Orgards, London.
Attribution:
M. S.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Here lies one conquered that hath conquered Kings
Page No:
pp.27-28
Poem Title:
St. Sepulchre's, London.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
In the year of Jesus Christ's incarnation
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pp.28-29
Poem Title:
St. Peter's, Cornhill.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Whoever thou art that lookst upon
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p.32
Poem Title:
St. Bride's, London.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Like a dog with a bottle tied close to his tail
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p.32
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Thomas Flatman,
Attributed To:
Thomas Flatman
First Line:
Here Lucie Quinbie Bromfield buried lies
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pp.33-34
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Come Alecto and lend me thy torch
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p.47
Poem Title:
St. Margaret's, Westminster.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Reader wonder think it none
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pp.48-49
Poem Title:
On Henry, Prince of Wales, Son of King James I.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Concealed from care beneath this marble lies
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p.50
Poem Title:
Stepney.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Here lies one who was born and cried
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p.50
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
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First Line:
Nigh to the river Ouse in York's fair city
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p.51
Poem Title:
St. Mary's, York.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Tread gently reader near the dust
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p.51
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
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First Line:
Walkers wheresoever you be
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p.57
Poem Title:
St. Paul's Cathedral.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Here lieth John Cruker a maker of bellows
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p.57
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
J. Hoskines.
Attributed To:
J. Hoskines
First Line:
Here lieth Richard a Preene
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p.59
Poem Title:
From Cambden.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Here or elsewhere all's one to you or me
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p.59
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
written by Harry Marten for himself
Attributed To:
Harry Martin
First Line:
Within this tomb the famed Politian's laid
Page No:
p.63
Poem Title:
Florence.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Six lines this image shall delineate
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p.69
Poem Title:
St. Paul's Cathedral.
Attribution:
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First Line:
The womb and tomb in name be not so near
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p.70
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
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First Line:
Here lieth old Cromwell
Page No:
p.79
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Followed by prose note, signed A. O.
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Not attributed
First Line:
Stand soldiers ere you march by way of charge
Page No:
p.83
Poem Title:
Canterbury Cathedral.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Stay gentle reader pass not slightly by
Page No:
p.84
Poem Title:
Canterbury Cathedral.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Here lies the corpse of William Prynne
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p.85
Poem Title:
[no title.]
Attribution:
S. Butler.
Attributed To:
Samuel Butler
First Line:
Enough cold stone suffice her long loved name
Page No:
p.89
Poem Title:
Mrs. Margaret Hill, died June, 25, 1731. Aged XXXVII.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Reader | If fond of what is rare attend
Page No:
pp.89-90
Poem Title:
Welwyn, Hertfordshire.
Attribution:
E. Y. 1749.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
I who am laid beneath this marble stone
Page No:
p.92
Poem Title:
Epitaph of Richard the 3d, buried at Leicester, by the Order, and at the Expences of King Henry the Seventh.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Why start the case is yours or will be soon
Page No:
pp.93-94
Poem Title:
On a Gentleman.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Blush not ye fair to own me but be wise
Page No:
pp.94-95
Poem Title:
On a Lady.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
What so thou hast of nature or of arts
Page No:
p.96
Poem Title:
Westminster-Abbey.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Inclosed lie hid as sacred remains
Page No:
pp.102-103
Poem Title:
Stepney.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Interred beneath this marble stone
Page No:
pp.105-106
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
In vain oppressors do themselves perplex
Page No:
p.116
Poem Title:
Tindal's Coemetery, London.
Attribution:
E. Bagshaw.
Attributed To:
Edward Bagshaw
First Line:
Hail happy pair predestined long to prove
Page No:
pp.120-121
Poem Title:
On Mr. Maddox a Dancing-Master, and his Wife.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Reader consider well how poor a span
Page No:
p.125
Poem Title:
Stepney.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Here lieth N a man of fame
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p.126
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
To say an angel here interred doth lie
Page No:
p.126
Poem Title:
Stepney.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
If birth if virtue if fair feature decked
Page No:
p.127
Poem Title:
English.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
He that's imprisoned in this narrow room
Page No:
p.133
Poem Title:
Canterbury Cathedral.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Shall honour fame and titles of renown
Page No:
pp.134-135
Poem Title:
St. Paul's Cathedral.
Attribution:
E.W.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Whoso be that passeth by
Page No:
pp.140-141
Poem Title:
Canterbury Cathedral.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
If wise amazed depart this holy grave
Page No:
p.143
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Giles Fletcher.
Attributed To:
Giles Fletcher
First Line:
I'll not offend thee with a vain tear more
Page No:
p.143
Poem Title:
On Sir John Roe.
Attribution:
Ben Jonson
Attributed To:
Benjamin Jonson
First Line:
Enough and leave the rest to fame
Page No:
p.144
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
A. Marvell.
Attributed To:
Andrew Marvell
First Line:
Thou who surveyst these walls with curious eye
Page No:
pp.148-149
Poem Title:
On Sir Thomas Hanmer.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Farewell you world I take leave for ever
Page No:
pp.153-154
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
O pitiful creature concerning earthly sepulchre
Page No:
p.154
Poem Title:
Dartford.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Preyeth for the soul in way of charity
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p.154
Poem Title:
Stone, in the Diocese of Rochester.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
The mortal corpses buried here behold
Page No:
pp.155-156
Poem Title:
Romford.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
The voice the light the cavalier
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p.158
Poem Title:
St. Eustorgio, Milan.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Here lieth Marmaduke constable of Flamborough knight
Page No:
pp.159-160
Poem Title:
Flamborough.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Here lies Joseph Antony Myonet's son
Page No:
p.161
Poem Title:
Winchcombe, Gloucestershire.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
My sledge and hammer lie reclined
Page No:
p.161
Poem Title:
Lincoln Church. In Memory of David Fletcher, Smith to this Church, who died Feb. 14, 1744. Aged 48 Years.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Diana mournful for her husband dead
Page No:
p.162
Poem Title:
Our Lady, Rouen.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Capacious soul with learning fraught
Page No:
p.164
Poem Title:
Treguier Cathedral.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
He that hath such acuteness and such wit
Page No:
p.168
Poem Title:
On Mr. Francis Beaumont.
Attribution:
Bishop Corbet.
Attributed To:
Richard Corbett
First Line:
How fares my lord speak Beaufort to thy sovereign
Page No:
pp.170-171
Poem Title:
Winchester Cathedral.
Attribution:
Shakespear
Attributed To:
William Shakespeare
First Line:
How do I thank thee death and bless thy power
Page No:
pp.174-175
Poem Title:
On the Lady Arabella Stuart.
Attribution:
by Dr. Richard Corbet.
Attributed To:
Richard Corbett
First Line:
The stroke of death's inevitable dart
Page No:
p.175
Poem Title:
Walden, in Essex.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Within this melancholy tomb confined
Page No:
p.176
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
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First Line:
Quintin whose eager appetite desired
Page No:
p.179
Poem Title:
[St. John of Lateran, Paris. ('Quintinus Doctor librorumque Helluo summus')] In English
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Why was I snatched so soon and why my date
Page No:
p.179
Poem Title:
Augustines, Paris.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Here lies a man made Spain and Holland shake
Page No:
p.182
Poem Title:
On Admiral Blake.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Here lies that godly noble wise lord Boyd
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p.183.00
Poem Title:
Kilmarnock Church, Scotland.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Nature and art in Chaloner combined
Page No:
pp.184-185
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Dr. Walter Haddon, Master of Requests to Queen Elizabeth.
Attributed To:
Walter Haddon
First Line:
Thou passenger that shalt have so much time
Page No:
p.186
Poem Title:
Grey Friers, Edinburgh.
Attribution:
Earl of Argyle
Attributed To:
Archibald Campbell
First Line:
Below this marble monument is laid
Page No:
pp.189-190
Poem Title:
Bath Abbey.
Attribution:
John Dryden.
Attributed To:
John Dryden
First Line:
And is he dead and shan't the city weep
Page No:
p.192
Poem Title:
St. Edmund's, Sarum.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Here lies old Hobson death hath broke his girt
Page No:
p.194
Poem Title:
On the Cambridge Carrier, who sickened in the Time of his Vacancy, being forbid to go to London, by reason of the Plague.
Attribution:
John Milton.
Attributed To:
John Milton
First Line:
Here lieth one who did most truly prove
Page No:
pp.194-195
Poem Title:
On the same.
Attribution:
John Milton.
Attributed To:
John Milton
First Line:
Alas death alas a blissful thing that were
Page No:
pp.197-198
Poem Title:
Over the Figures of Death and a Traveller.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Here lies doctor John Dauntsey by name
Page No:
p.198
Poem Title:
Abbey Church, Bath.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
If it be lawful for a rural pen
Page No:
p.199
Poem Title:
St. Edmund's, Sarum. Richardus Vennard.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Ingenious soul soul so young thy heavenly fire
Page No:
p.200
Poem Title:
Abbey Church, Bath.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
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First Line:
Here lies father and mother and sister and I
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p.202
Poem Title:
Nettlebed, Oxfordshire.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Hushed be each ruder breath within this shrine
Page No:
p.202
Poem Title:
Verses making part of an Epitaph to be engraved on the monument of a Lady.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
This rich marble doth interr
Page No:
pp.207-209
Poem Title:
On the Marchioness of Winchester.
Attribution:
John Milton.
Attributed To:
John Milton
First Line:
Here William Inglott organist doth rest
Page No:
pp.210-211
Poem Title:
Norwich Cathedral.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Why look ye do ye see now who lies here
Page No:
p.216
Poem Title:
-- Cumberland.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Here lies one More and no more than he
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p.217
Poem Title:
St. Bennet's, Paul's Whrfe, London.
Attribution:
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First Line:
O cruel death why wert thou so unkind
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p.217
Poem Title:
---, ---.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Here two young Danish soldiers lie
Page No:
p.219
Poem Title:
St. Mary's, Beverly, Y.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Banes among stones
Page No:
p.220
Poem Title:
Rippon Cathedral.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Here lies the body of poor Frank Rowe
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p.220
Poem Title:
Selby, Yorkshire.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
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First Line:
Short was my stay in this vain world
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p.220
Poem Title:
St. Peter's, Leeds. Thomas Crabtree, 1680.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Here lieth old Beck who sold fruit who sold fruit at the cross
Page No:
p.223
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Attributed To:
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First Line:
Turn hither man within this tomb
Page No:
p.223
Poem Title:
On Henry Fielding, Esq;
Attribution:
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First Line:
If ever paerent ever child was dear
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p.224
Poem Title:
Epitaph on a young Gentleman.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Stop passenger until my life you've read
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pp.224-225
Poem Title:
On Margaret Scott.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Had cruel death whose harvest is each hour
Page No:
p.224
Poem Title:
On a young Lady.
Attribution:
Em. Collins.
Attributed To:
Em. Collins
First Line:
Here lieth under this stone William Wake
Page No:
pp.225-226
Poem Title:
All Saints, Hertf.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
O born to bless and die and die in temper mild
Page No:
p.225
Poem Title:
St. Thomas's Sarum. To the Memory of Lucy Hippisley, aged 6 Years, Daughter of Robert Hippisley, Esq;
Attribution:
R. H.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Here lies interred under this stone
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p.227
Poem Title:
Rennesley, Hertf.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
At length thy soul has reached the land of peace
Page No:
p.228
Poem Title:
On a Father.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Nothing of Cadmus nor St George those names
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pp.228-229
Poem Title:
Brent Pelham, Hertf.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
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First Line:
Thy lifeless trunk o reverend Stocke
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p.229
Poem Title:
Allhallows, Breadstreet.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
From my sad cradle to my sable chest
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p.230
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Here lies a Margarite that the most excelled
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p.230
Poem Title:
St. Bartholomew, Exch.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Live ye to learn that die you must
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pp.230-231
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Stand fair encountered both grave sovereign time
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pp.231-233
Poem Title:
Christ Church, London. Time's Triumph on the Death of Mr. Robert Rogers, who deceased anno 1601, in the Manner of a Dialogue between Time, Death and Rogers.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Bereaved I am of those there was left one
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p.234
Poem Title:
New Chapel, Broadway, Westminster. [...] St. Giles's, Cripplegate.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
The bearer's sorrow sable lions show
Page No:
pp.234-235
Poem Title:
St. Giles's, Cripplegate.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
The grandame she full fourscore years and two
Page No:
p.234
Poem Title:
New Chapel, Broadway, Westminster. On Jane, Catharine, and Catharine Squire.
Attribution:
Hugh Squire.
Attributed To:
Hugh Squire
First Line:
Thy pains are ended and thy sorrows over
Page No:
p.266
Poem Title:
Riva, in the Diocese of Trent.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed