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.

Comments

[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.