The following lines occur in a small volume called _The Compleat Bell-Man, being a Pattern for all sorts of People to take notice of the most remarkable Times and Dayes in the Year_, by H. Crouch (seventeenth century). The book contains thirty-nine verses, for Saint-Days and Anniversaries chiefly, a few being on more general subjects. The last verse, No. 39, _Upon the day of Doom_, runs as follows:-- When Earth of Earth shall turn to Earth That was but Earth even from its Birth, Then Earth from Earth shall rise again To endlesse joy, or endlesse pain, Let Earth then serve and please his Maker That Earth of Heaven may be pertaker. The following is an Epitaph on Roger Earth of Dinton, Wilts, died 1634 (see E. R. Suffling, _Epitaphia_, p. 81):-- From Earth wee came, to Earth wee must returne, Witness this EARTH that Lyes within this VRNE. Begott by EARTH: Borne also of Earth’s WOMBE, 74 yeares lived EARTH, now Earth’s his TOMBE. In Earth EARTH’S Body Lyes Vnder this STONE, But from this Earth to Heauen EARTH’S soule is gone. Another later epitaph is quoted by Suffling, p. 339, from Loughter, Glamorganshire, without name or date:-- O Earth! O Earth observe this well, That Earth to Earth must go to dwell, That Earth to Earth must close remain Till Earth for Earth shall come again. [Footnote 1: But this is not in agreement with Bateman’s opinion as to the age of the original parchment roll (1400-1430), see Introduction, p. xi.] [Footnote 2: ? for.] APPENDIX I. The three following _Erthe_ poems, in Latin, French, and English respectively, were discovered too late for inclusion in the text. They represent renderings of the same poem in the three languages, and are preserved on the back of a Roll[1] in the Public Record Office, containing a copy of the Ordinances of the fifth year of Edward II (of which other copies exist in the British Museum, the Record Office, and the Treasury at Canterbury). The poems in question are written on the back of the Roll, towards the end, the Latin and French in parallel columns, and the English below, five verses under the Latin, and four under the French. They are preceded by a number of Latin recipes in another hand, and a few in French follow. The handwriting of the poems is smaller and neater than that of the Ordinances, or the Latin recipes, but was ascribed by Hunter[2] to the time of Edward II, and may perhaps be assigned to the fourteenth century. The French is fourteenth-century Anglo-French, and the texts probably belong to that century, though this copy of them may not have been made until after 1400.