Gleanings in Graveyards: A Collection of Curious EpitaphsNorfolk, Horatio Edward
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Gleanings in Graveyards: A Collection of Curious Epitaphs
Norfolk, Horatio Edward
Epitaphs; Epitaphs -- Great Britain
Traveller, hurry not, as if you were going _post_-haste; in the most
rapid journey you must stop at the _post_ house. Here repose the
bones of MATTHIAS SCHULZEN, the most humble and most faithful
_Postmaster_, for upwards of Twenty-five years, of His Majesty,
Frederick, King of Prussia. He arrived 1655; and afterwards
travelled with distinction in life’s pilgrimage, by walking courses
in the Schools and Universities. He carefully performed his duties
as a Christian, and when the _post_ of misfortune came, he behaved
according to the _letter_ of divine consolation. His body, however,
ultimately being enfeebled, he was prepared to attend the signal
given by the _post_ of death; when his soul set off on her pleasing
journey for Paradise, the 2nd of June, 1711; and his body afterwards
was committed to this silent tomb. Reader, in thy pilgrimage through
life, be mindful of the prophetic _post_ of Death!
* * * * *
Dear Husband, now my life is past,
And I am stuck in Earth so fast,
I pray no sorrow for me take,
But love my Children, for my sake;—
* * * * *
Hamburgh.
“O Mors Cur Deus Negat Vitam
be te bis nos bis nam.”
Solution.
O! Superbe! Mors Super--te!
Cur Superbis?
Deus Supernos! negat Superbis
Vitam Supernam.
* * * * *
On the Duke of Burgundy’s tomb in St. George’s Church, near Condé:—
“Carolus hoc busto Burgundæ gloria gentis,
Conditur, Europæ qui fuit ante timor.”
* * * * *
Near the left wall in the Protestant-ground at Rome is a monument to Lord
Barrington, and a tombstone to the infant child of Mr. William Lambton:—
Go thou, white in thy soul, and fill a throne
Of innocence and purity in heaven!
* * * * *
Silo Princeps Fecit.
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