Sepulchroum Inscriptiones. Being a curious collection of the most remarkable epitaphs [ESTC P2281]
- DMI number:
- 1243
- Publication Date:
- 1726
- Volume Number:
- 1
- ESTC number:
- P2281
- Shelfmark:
- Glasgow University Library Sp Coll BD16-g.4
- Full Title:
- [i]Sepulchrorum Inscriptiones.[/i] | Being a CURIOUS | COLLECTION | Of the most Remarkable | EPITAPHS | In the KINGDOMS of | [i]Great Britain, Ireland,[/i] &c. | In ENGLISH VERSE. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | Faithfully Collected by JAMES JONES, [i]Gent.[/i] | [rule] | NUMB. I [i]To be continued Monthly.[/i] | [rule] | [i]WESTMINSTER:[/i] | Printed by A. CAMPBELL, in [i]Union Street,[/i] near [i]New Palace- | Yard[/i]; for J. CLUER in [i]Bow Church-Yard,[/i] and B. CREAKE, at the [i]Bible[/i] in [i]Jermyn-street, St James's.[/i] 1726.
- Epigraph:
- It is appointed unto Men once to dye. Heb. 9. 27. I wish to die, yet date not Death endure; | Detest the Medicine, yet desire the Cure; | O! had I Courage, but to meet my Fate, | That short dark Passage to a future State, | That melancholy Riddle of a Breath, | That Something or that Nothing after Death. Dryd.
- Place of Publication:
- Westminster
- Genres:
- Made-up miscellany, Collection includes verse in other languages, and Collection of occasional pieces
- Format:
- Octavo
- Pagination:
- 8 leaves, [2], [i]-iv, [1]-64 pp, 7 leaves
- Bibliographic details:
- annotated
- Comments:
- Following issue number on title page: "To be continued monthly." Title page to no. 7 includes "vol. II" and note: "To be continued every two months." Pagination and register continuous in each volume. Uncontrolled note Glasgow University library has no. 1 only. Citation/references Case, A.E. Poetical miscellanies, 346 Numbering note Numerical designation only; issues not dated; actual publication frequency not known. No. 1-6 constitute v. 1; volume numbering begins with no. 7. No more published? Link note Cumulated in two volumes (1727) as: Sepulchrorum inscriptiones: or a curious collection of above 900 of the most remarkable epitaphs.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory: Preface 4pp (pp. [i]-iv) Title page preceded by list of other epigraph collections, made up of references cut from newspaper reviews and stuck onto blank leaves. (5 leaves) End matter: Made-up miscellany of epitaphs cut from newspapers follows the printed text after p. 64. (7 leaves). Verse epitaphs included in record.
- Printer:
- Alexander Campbell
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Bezaleel Creake
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- John Cluer
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Death is too doleful which doth join
- Page No:
- pp.[1]-3
- Poem Title:
- Edward I. King of England.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The friend of piety and alms deed
- Page No:
- p.[1]
- Poem Title:
- Henry III. King of England.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Queen Eleanor is here interred
- Page No:
- pp.3-4
- Poem Title:
- Queen Elenore, Wife of Edward I.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fair Philip William Henalde's child
- Page No:
- pp.4-5
- Poem Title:
- Philippa, Wife of Edward III.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies queen Katherine closed in grave
- Page No:
- pp.6-7
- Poem Title:
- On Queen Katherine, Wife of Henry V.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Queen Ann Richard the second's wife
- Page No:
- pp.7-8
- Poem Title:
- Ann, Wife to Richard II.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O thou whose liberal hand my fortunes raised
- Page No:
- pp.8-9
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of Queen Anne, by Dr. Smalldridge.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Right noble twice by virtue and by birth
- Page No:
- p.9
- Poem Title:
- In Memory of John Lord Russel.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What so thou hast of nature or of arts
- Page No:
- pp.9-10
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of Francis Hollis, Son to the Earl of Clare.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With diligence and trust most exemplary
- Page No:
- p.10
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of William Laurance Prebendary of Westminster.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Mean artifice to gild precarious fame
- Page No:
- pp.10-11
- Poem Title:
- Mr. Beckinham's Epitaph on Matthew Prior.
- Attribution:
- Mr Beckingham
- Attributed To:
- Charles Beckingham
- First Line:
- Ye sacred relics which your marble keep
- Page No:
- pp.11-12
- Poem Title:
- Sacred to the Memory of Sir Palmes Fairborne, Governor of Tangier.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- His flesh interred here contained a spirit
- Page No:
- p.12
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of John Gavan.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While through the world thy labours shine
- Page No:
- pp.12-13
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Abraham Cowley, Poet.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Good friend for Jesus sake forbear
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of William Shakespear.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here to the word of god she did attend
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of Mrs. Mary Crompton.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Before this stone interred lies
- Page No:
- p.14
- Poem Title:
- An Epitaph near the same Place.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Reader do not with hasty folly
- Page No:
- pp.14-15
- Poem Title:
- On the Tomb of Dame Joan Wilson.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Silence but a word namely that he
- Page No:
- p.14
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of Henry Colbron.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A Dudley lodgeth here peace idle fame
- Page No:
- pp.15-16
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of Christopher Dudley, Esq;
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies the best of men whose life is at an end
- Page No:
- p.15
- Poem Title:
- On John Hensham.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Near to this marble Judith Bayley lies
- Page No:
- p.16
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of Judith Bayley.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Reader it grieves me that I cannot bring
- Page No:
- pp.16-17
- Poem Title:
- To the Pious Memory of Robert Hope.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- He who in impious times undaunted stood
- Page No:
- pp.17-18
- Poem Title:
- On the Marquis of Winchester.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- There sleeps great Essex darling of mankind
- Page No:
- p.17
- Poem Title:
- On the Earl of Essex.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oft for the king but ever for the state
- Page No:
- p.18
- Poem Title:
- On the Duke of Buckingham. ('Pro Rege Saepe, Pro Republica Semper')] Thus attempted in English.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here under lieth a man of fame
- Page No:
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- On Sir William Walworth, Knt. Twice Lord Mayor of London.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- So fair so young so innocent so sweet
- Page No:
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Margaret Paston.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lieth a man that faith and works did even
- Page No:
- pp.20-21
- Poem Title:
- On Sir John Chadworth.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In this cold tomb his silent ashes rest
- Page No:
- p.20
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of Captain Francis Maynard.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Her noble soul and lovely body joined
- Page No:
- p.21
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of Mrs. Holt.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let friends forbear to mourn and weep
- Page No:
- pp.21-22
- Poem Title:
- On the Children of Richard Merry.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The god of battle found in foreign parts
- Page No:
- p.21
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of Michael Godfrey, Slain by a Cannon-Ball, at the Seige of Namure.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lieth wrapped in clay
- Page No:
- p.22
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Wray.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In heaven her soul
- Page No:
- p.22
- Poem Title:
- On the Body of Mary Sandys.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thus youth and age and all things pass away
- Page No:
- p.22
- Poem Title:
- On the Body of Mr. William Williams.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here Sir Henry Leigh is lying
- Page No:
- p.23
- Poem Title:
- On Sir Henry Leigh.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- She whose unblemished life two husbands blessed
- Page No:
- p.23
- Poem Title:
- On the Body of Mrs. Brown.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ten in the hundred lies here ingraved
- Page No:
- p.23
- Poem Title:
- On John A Comb, an old Userer, by Shakespear, at Comb's Request.
- Attribution:
- By Shakespear
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- First Line:
- He lived he died so much his love prevailed
- Page No:
- p.24
- Poem Title:
- Sacred to the Memory of Thomas Drake.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Laden with years by sickness pressed
- Page No:
- p.24
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Audrie Warren.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- This fair young virgin for a nuptial bed
- Page No:
- p.24
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Mary Gaudy.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Do pious marble let thy reader know
- Page No:
- pp.25-26
- Poem Title:
- Michael Draiton, Esq; a Memorable Poet of this Age.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- His flesh interred here once contained a spirit
- Page No:
- p.25
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of Mr. John Symonds.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Not twice ten years of age a weary breath
- Page No:
- p.25
- Poem Title:
- On the Earl of Warren and the Lord Scales.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Admired beloved lamented infancy
- Page No:
- pp.26-27
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Joanna Bryon.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Where once the famous Elton did entrust
- Page No:
- p.26
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Thomas Elton, and John Whitaker.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Reader it pleased the almighty to infuse
- Page No:
- p.27
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of Sir Hugh Brawn.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Stand reader and spend a tear
- Page No:
- p.27
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of Alice Jourdan.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- After a short but sharp affliction here
- Page No:
- pp.28-29
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. John Dent.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- This fickle world contrived and made a play
- Page No:
- p.28
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. John Earl.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though for a time his presence we do lack
- Page No:
- p.28
- Poem Title:
- At Weeden in Northamptonshire.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To you that live possessed great troubles do befall
- Page No:
- p.29
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of Captain Thomas Stone.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Weep not for me it is in vain
- Page No:
- p.29
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of Jonathan Hicks.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies Charles Ca'ndish let the marble stone
- Page No:
- pp.30-31
- Poem Title:
- On Charles Candish.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of Carthage great I was a stone
- Page No:
- p.30
- Poem Title:
- In the Wall of Stepney Church.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Alderman Jones locked up in a box
- Page No:
- p.31
- Poem Title:
- On Alderman Jones.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From gout and pox and plague
- Page No:
- p.32
- Poem Title:
- Recital of the Will of Nicholas Daniel, in the County of Wilts, being troubled with the Gout.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies a proof that wit can never be
- Page No:
- p.32
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Apharra Behn, Dy'd April, 16, 1689.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What I gave I have
- Page No:
- p.32
- Poem Title:
- The Inscription on a black Marble Stone of Thomas Ravenscroft.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Give leave then grief let my drowned muse declare
- Page No:
- p.33
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Barnes.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In vain an epitaph should thee commend
- Page No:
- p.34
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. John Allen.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Reader consider well how poor a span
- Page No:
- pp.34-35
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Chevers.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thus fled our dear away and with a dove like mind
- Page No:
- p.34
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Marsh.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Faith root hope stock the branch is charity
- Page No:
- p.35
- Poem Title:
- Under Faith.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Rest thou whose rest gives me a restless life
- Page No:
- p.35
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Malachi.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Within this tomb's enclosed the sacred dust
- Page No:
- p.35
- Poem Title:
- On William Rowe.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Farewell dear gift since god will have it so
- Page No:
- p.36
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Archer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hither no tears but garlands bring
- Page No:
- p.36
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Thomas Wayte.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To say an angel here interred doth lie
- Page No:
- p.36
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Angel.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cease labours rest ye seas of cares and fears
- Page No:
- p.37
- Poem Title:
- In Mr. Knight.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If wealth nor worth nor friends nor parts
- Page No:
- p.37
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Throkmorton.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whoever thou art that lookst upon
- Page No:
- pp.37-38
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Flatman.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Farewell dear flower no sooner came
- Page No:
- p.38
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Wilkes.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Reader whoever thou art let some tears fall
- Page No:
- pp.38-39
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Breton.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- She was modest meek and good indeed
- Page No:
- p.39
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of Elizabeth Cooper.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To say an Ell lives here even that alone
- Page No:
- pp.39-40
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of Susan Ell.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Come ladies you that would appear
- Page No:
- pp.40-41
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of Rebecca Berry.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies the son here lies the mother
- Page No:
- p.40
- Poem Title:
- [In a Church yard at Marle in France. ('Ci git le Fils, ci git la mere [...]')] In English thus.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A charming star that glistered far when fixed in this our sky
- Page No:
- pp.41-42
- Poem Title:
- On Edward Marshal, Parson of the Parish.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Great soul for whom death will no longer stay
- Page No:
- pp.42-43
- Poem Title:
- On one unknown.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- He is not here if you would see
- Page No:
- p.42
- Poem Title:
- On Jerome Keyt, Esq;
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though Boreas' blasts and Neptune's waves
- Page No:
- p.43
- Poem Title:
- To the Memory of Capt. John Dunch.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Under this stone doth Cicely Bridges sleep
- Page No:
- p.43
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Cicely Bridges.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies a reverend Givan priest
- Page No:
- p.44
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. John Pettygrew, late Minister at Givan near Glasgow in Scotland.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here Thomas Saffin lies interred ah why
- Page No:
- pp.44-45
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Thomas Saffin.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The choice of wives the flower of chastity
- Page No:
- p.44
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Catherine Wareyn.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A maid of eighteen
- Page No:
- p.45
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs Penniah Juckes.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Stay passenger read what this marble tells
- Page No:
- pp.45-46
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Dorothy Pooley.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- This faithful learned humble man of god
- Page No:
- p.46
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Richard Elcock.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whoever treadeth on this stone
- Page No:
- p.46
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. William Wheatly.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here a much loved regretted victim lies
- Page No:
- p.47
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Alice Gisbourne.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Stay you that heedless of the dead
- Page No:
- pp.47-48
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Rose Atkinson.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Inclosed lies hid as sacred remains
- Page No:
- pp.48-49
- Poem Title:
- An Acrostick on Mr. James Bayly, Mariner.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My time is short the longer is my rest
- Page No:
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Christopher Twell, aged 16.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Not that he needed monuments of stone
- Page No:
- p.49
- Poem Title:
- On Nathaniel Still, Esq;
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Underneath this stone doth lie
- Page No:
- p.49
- Poem Title:
- On a Young Lady.
- Attribution:
- B. Johnson.
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
- First Line:
- Christ was my hope his word my only stay
- Page No:
- p.50
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Robert Sprignell.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Death is the painful way that all must tread
- Page No:
- p.50
- Poem Title:
- On Sir Stephen Harvey.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- She was to husband children neighbours kind
- Page No:
- p.50
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Mary Andrews.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What must she say who you commends
- Page No:
- p.50
- Poem Title:
- On M. C.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Her faith and sickness both together strove
- Page No:
- p.51
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Frances Manson.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies entombed a married man's great woe
- Page No:
- p.51
- Poem Title:
- On a Shrew.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lieth one born and cried
- Page No:
- p.51
- Poem Title:
- On one unknown.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Scarce seven years old this grace in glory ends
- Page No:
- p.51
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Grace Medford.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies a woman no man can deny it
- Page No:
- p.52
- Poem Title:
- Another.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies father Sparges
- Page No:
- p.52
- Poem Title:
- On an old Miser, nam'd Sparges.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With as much zeal devotion piety
- Page No:
- p.52
- Poem Title:
- The Character of Mr. William Harvey.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Reader wonder think it none
- Page No:
- pp.53-54
- Poem Title:
- On Prince Henry, eldest Son of King James I.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The Queen was brought by water to Whitehall
- Page No:
- p.53
- Poem Title:
- On the Removal of Queen Elizabeth's Body by Water to Whitehall, from Richmond, where she Died.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Great good and just could I but rate
- Page No:
- p.54
- Poem Title:
- On King Charles I.
- Attribution:
- Written by the Marquis of Montrose, with the Point of his Sword, in the Sands of Lieth [sic], on hearing of the King's Murder.
- Attributed To:
- James Graham
- First Line:
- Let them bestow on every airth a limb
- Page No:
- pp.54-55
- Poem Title:
- On the Marquis of Montrose.
- Attribution:
- Written by himself, with the Diamond of his Ring, upon the Glass-Window of his Room in Prison, on hearing what was his Sentence.
- Attributed To:
- James Graham
- First Line:
- Concealed from care beneath this marble lies
- Page No:
- pp.55-56
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Christopher Henly.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies the last King Charles of Spain
- Page No:
- p.55
- Poem Title:
- On Charles, late King of Spain.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- She died first he for a little tried
- Page No:
- p.56
- Poem Title:
- On one unknown.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Underneath this marble hearse
- Page No:
- p.56
- Poem Title:
- On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Frances the fair the wise the good
- Page No:
- p.57
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Frances Hewit.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Under this marble stone those ashes lie
- Page No:
- p.57
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Frances Croker.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When you this monument shall see
- Page No:
- pp.57-58
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Peter Pretty.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- And is he dead is he already dead
- Page No:
- p.58
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. William Irons.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Heaven's and earth's love have shared
- Page No:
- p.58
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Anne Naunton.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In this same tomb my body lies at rest
- Page No:
- p.59
- Poem Title:
- On one unknown.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- So tis she's gone farewell to all
- Page No:
- pp.59-60
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Thomazin Dooe.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whom god much loved who merited man's praise
- Page No:
- p.59
- Poem Title:
- Thomas Skippe, Esq; to his Wife.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- England hath his body for she it hath fed
- Page No:
- p.60
- Poem Title:
- On Sir Philip Sidney.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In life and death most strict in right accord
- Page No:
- p.60
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Anne Carty.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Vere sought death armed with his sword and shield
- Page No:
- p.60
- Poem Title:
- On Sir Francis Vere.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lieth one bereaved of her life
- Page No:
- p.61
- Poem Title:
- Long since demolish'd.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Jesus Christ both god and man
- Page No:
- p.61
- Poem Title:
- On Sir ---- Jernagan.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While here entombed the virgin's ashes lies
- Page No:
- p.61
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Mary Browning, Aged 13 Years, 6 Months.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Arthur Cressold lieth interred here
- Page No:
- p.62
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Arthur Cressold.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thus quick the nimble sands betwixt them run
- Page No:
- p.62
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Henry Cooley.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thy soul enthroned in paradise where I
- Page No:
- pp.62-63
- Poem Title:
- On Sir Nicholas Parker.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Her rest give me a restless life
- Page No:
- p.63
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Susanna Barker.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- That undisturbed this place my bones may keep
- Page No:
- p.63
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Elizabeth Pilling.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A zealous locksmith died of late
- Page No:
- p.64
- Poem Title:
- On a Lock-smith.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- He was one that feared the lord
- Page No:
- p.64
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Nathaniel Fowler, Son to the Bishop of Glocester.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- One charming bird to paradise is flown
- Page No:
- p.64
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. William Bird, Aged 4 Years.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Beneath this stone lies Edward Green
- Page No:
- p.65
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My name my country what are they to thee
- Page No:
- p.65
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If wisdom learning worth demand a tear
- Page No:
- p.65
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph of Lord Monboddo.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Tytler.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Fraser Tytler
- First Line:
- Death was determined not to part
- Page No:
- p.66
- Poem Title:
- Death of a Curious Pair.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lyes ye corps of William Prynne
- Page No:
- p.66
- Poem Title:
- Original Epitaph of Prynne.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here sleeps in peace a Hampshire grenadier
- Page No:
- p.66
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Our tongs and hammers lie declined
- Page No:
- p.66
- Poem Title:
- Whimsical Epitaph.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Beneath this monumental stone lie
- Page No:
- p.67
- Poem Title:
- On One Only.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The life of this clerk was just three score and ten
- Page No:
- p.67
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph in Crayford Churchyard.
- Attribution:
- T.H.T.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Grieve not for me my dearest dear
- Page No:
- p.68
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph. On a Tomb-Stone, in Wiltshire.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I am not grieved my dearest life
- Page No:
- p.68
- Poem Title:
- Underneath the above, the following was written, by a Gentleman, with chalk.
- Attribution:
- by a Gentleman
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How soon ye objects of my love
- Page No:
- p.69
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O deare mother you are gone before
- Page No:
- p.69
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of tender threads this mortal web is made
- Page No:
- p.69
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The pattern of conjugal love the rare
- Page No:
- p.69
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Posts oft he made yet never a place could get
- Page No:
- p.70
- Poem Title:
- Dead Wood.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The vocal powers here let us mark
- Page No:
- p.70
- Poem Title:
- Another.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- This thing in life will raise some jealousy
- Page No:
- p.70
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here Johnson lies who spent his days
- Page No:
- p.71
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph upon Ben Jonson
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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