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Gravestone with verse epitaph, South Wingfield, Derbyshire

F
airwell vain world I've known enough of thee:
and now am careles what thou sayes of me:
thy smiles I cort not nor thy frowns I fear:
my cares are past my head lieth quiat here:
what falts thou sawest in me now strive to shun:
There is worke enough within thee to be done.

Date: 2012-10-04 12:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] internet-sampo.livejournal.com
Great picture.

Date: 2012-10-04 12:28 pm (UTC)

Date: 2012-10-04 03:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pondhopper.livejournal.com
I like that.
And the stone writing is so clear for the 18th century!
Edited Date: 2012-10-04 03:03 pm (UTC)

Date: 2012-10-04 03:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com
It's amazingly well preserved. I guess it must have been under a tree or something.

Date: 2012-10-04 04:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] athenais.livejournal.com
I love headstones like this one! That is lovely script. Wish we knew who it was that gave the back of his hand to the world.

Date: 2012-10-04 05:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com
It occurred to me afterwards that there might have been a name round the other side. I should have looked.

Date: 2012-10-04 06:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] algabal.livejournal.com
Such a marvelous place to find real wisdom, and not sentimentality.

Date: 2012-10-04 07:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com
The 18th century had a fairly tough-minded approach to death.

Date: 2012-10-04 06:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com
That is lovely. I seem to hear an echo of Drayton in there somewhere: "Nay, I have done, you get no more of me".

Date: 2012-10-04 07:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com
Could be.

Verse epitaphs of this period can turn out to have a printed source. I remember stumbling across a really fine one once and later discovering it was by Sir Walter Raleigh.

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