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247. From Banbury Churchyard, Oxon:—

To the memory of Ric. Richards, who by gangreen first lost a toe,
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afterwards a leg, and lastly his life, on the 7 day of April, 1656:—

Ah, cruel Death, to make three meals of one,
To taste and eat, and eat till all was gone;
But, know, thou tyrant, when the trump shall call,
He’ll find his feet, and stand when thou shalt fall.

248. On the Rev. John Chest:—

Beneath this spot lies buried
One Chest within another,
The outer chest was a good one:
Who says so of the other?

249. On a Dwarf.

The following inscription—on a dwarf who was very intellectual and had
great skill on the piano—to be found on a tombstone in the graveyard of
St. Philip’s in Birmingham, expresses the opinion which was entertained of
her by all who knew her:—

In memory of Mannetta Stocker,
who quitted this life the fourth day of May,
1819, at the age of thirty-nine years.
The smallest woman in this kingdom, and
one of the most accomplished.
She was not more than thirty-three inches high.
She was a native of Austria.

250. From the Churchyard of Castell-llwchwr, South Wales:—

O Earth! O Earth, observe this well,
That Earth to Earth must go to dwell,