TYNEMOUTH.
Wha lies here?
Pate Watt, gin ye speer.
Poor Pate! is that thou?
Ay, by my soul, is ’t;
But I’s dead now.
ILDERTON.
Under this stone lies Bobbity John,
Who, when alive, to the world was a wonder;
And would have been so yet, had not death in a fit,
Cut his soul and his body asunder.
Oxfordshire.
WOLVERCOT.
Fair Rosomond’s Tomb.
Rosomond was buried at Godstow, a small island formed by the divided stream of the Isis, in the parish of Wolvercot, near Oxford. The following quaint epitaph was inscribed upon her tomb:—
“Hic jacet in Thumba, Rosa Mundi, non Rosamunda,
Non redolet sed olet, quæ redolere solet.”
Imitated in English.