18th c. Verse Epitaph, South Wingfield, Derbyshire

[poliphilo]

Fairwell 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.

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[internet-sampo.livejournal.com]

Great picture.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

I like that.
And the stone writing is so clear for the 18th century!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's amazingly well preserved. I guess it must have been under a tree or something.

[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.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It occurred to me afterwards that there might have been a name round the other side. I should have looked.

[algabal.livejournal.com]

Such a marvelous place to find real wisdom, and not sentimentality.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The 18th century had a fairly tough-minded approach to death.

[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".

[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.