The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical: A Cabinet for the CuriousStauffer, Frank H.
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The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical: A Cabinet for the Curious
Stauffer, Frank H.
Literary curiosa
The middle line furnishes the terminal letters or syllables of the words
in the upper and lower lines, and when added they read thus—
Quos anguis tristi diro cum vulnere stravit,
Hos sanguis Christi miro tum munere lavit.
[Those who have felt the serpent's venomed wound,
In Christ's miraculous blood have healing found.]
In a Paris cemetery—
I' attends ma femme. │ I await my wife.
1820. │ 1820.
────── │ ──────
Me voilá. │ I am here.
1830. │ 1830.
Shakespeare's tomb—
The inscription on Shakespeare's tomb forbids the removal of the body.
Subjoined is the prohibition—
"Good Friend, for Jesvs sake forbeare
To digg Y-E dvst EncloAsed HERE.
Blest be Y-E Man T-Y spares T-hs Stones
And cvrst be He T-Y moves my bones."
In consequence of this inscription, the people of Stratford-on-Avon are
afraid to put their feet on the stones above the grave, and the body of
the greatest English poet has not been placed with other geniuses in
Westminster Abbey.
Stone tablet puzzle—
The following letters are inscribed on a stone tablet placed immediately
over the Ten Commandments in a church in England, and are deciphered
with only one letter—
PRSVR Y PRFCT MN!
VR KP THS PRCPTS TN.
Grimmingham church-yard, Norfolk, England—
To the memory of Thomas Jackson, Comedian, who was _engaged,_ 21st of
Dec, 1741, to _play a comic cast of characters, in this great
theatre_—the World: for many of which he was _prompted_ by nature to
excel.
The _season_ being ended, his _benefit_ over, the charges all paid, and
his account closed, he made his _exit_ in the _tragedy_ of Death, on the
17th of March, 1798, in full assurance of being called once more to
_rehearsal;_ where he hopes to find his _forfeits_ all cleared, his
_cast of parts_ bettered, and his situation made agreeable by Him who
paid the great stock-debt, for the love which he bore to _performers_ in
general.
An inculpatory epitaph—
The following epitaph at West Allington, Devon, England, is not only a
memorial of the deceased, but reproves the parson of the parish—
Here lyeth the Body of
Daniel Jeffery the son of Mich
ael Jeffery and Joan his wife he
was buried y^e 22 day of September
1746 and in y^e 18th year of his age.
This Youth When In his sickness lay
did for the minister Send┿that he would
Come and with him Pray┿But he would not atend
But when this Young Man Buried was
The minister did him admit┿he should be
Caried into Church┿that he might money geet
By this you see what man will dwo┿to geet
money if he can┿who did refuse to come
pray┿by the Foresaid young man
At St. Benedict Fink—
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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