* * * * * On John D’Amory, the Usurer. Beneath this verdant hillock lies Demar the wealthy and wise. His Heirs, that he might safely rest, Have put his carcase in a Chest. The very Chest, in which, they say His other Self, his Money, lay. And if his Heirs continue kind To that dear Self he left behind, I dare believe that Four in Five Will think his better self alive. * * * * * On William Clay. A long affliction did my life attend, But time with patience brought it to an end, And now my body rests with Mother clay, Until the joyful resurrection day. * * * * * Written on Montmaur, A man of excellent memory, but deficient in judgment. In this black surtout reposes sweetly, Montmaur of happy memory, _awaiting his judgement_. * * * * * On an Invalid. Written by Himself. Here lies a head that often ached; Here lie two hands that always shak’d; Here lies a brain of odd conceit; Here lies a heart that often beat; Here lie two eyes that dimly wept, And in the night but seldom slept; Here lies a tongue that whining talk’d;— Here lie two feet that feebly walked; Here lie the midriff and the breast, With loads of indigestion prest; Here lives the liver full of bile, That ne’er secreted proper chyle; Here lie the bowels, human tripes, Tortured with wind and twisting gripes; Here lies the livid dab, the spleen, The source of life’s sad tragic scene, That left side weight that clogs the blood, And stagnates Nature’s circling flood; Here lies the back, oft racked with pains, Corroding kidneys, loins, and reins; Here lies the skin by scurvy fed, With pimples and irruptions red; Here lies the man from top to toe, That fabric fram’d for pain and woe. * * * * * On Sir John Vanbrugh. Lie heavy on him, earth! for he Laid many heavy loads on thee. * * * * * The following Epitaph was written by Shakespeare on Mr. Combe, an old gentleman noted for his wealth and usury:— “_Ten in the hundred_ lies here ingraved: ’Tis a hundred to ten his soul is not saved: If any man ask, Who lies in this tomb? Oh! oh! QUOTH THE DEVIL, ’TIS MY JOHN-A-COMBE.” * * * * * On Dr. Fuller. Here lies _Fuller’s_ earth. * * * * * On a Card-maker.