“He died of a quinsy,
And was buried at Binsey.”
Rutlandshire.
OAKHAM.
John Spong, Jobbing Carpenter.
Who many a sturdy oak had lain along,
Fell’d by Death’s surer hatchet, here lies Spong,
Posts oft he made, but ne’er a place could get,
And liv’d by railing, though he was no wit:
Old saws he had, although no antiquarian,
And stiles corrected, yet was no grammarian.
Shropshire.
SHREWSBURY.
On an Old Maid.
Here lies the body of Martha Dias,
Who was always uneasy, and not over pious;
She lived to the age of threescore and ten,
And gave that to the worms she refused to the men.