The following whimsical epitaph appears upon a white marble slab, in a conspicuous part of the church of St. Mary:—
Near this place are deposited the remains of Gedge, Printer, who established the first newspaper that has been published in this town. Like a worn out type, he is returned to the founder, in the hope of being recast in a better and more perfect mould.
HADLEIGH.
The charnel mounted on this w )
Sits to be seen in funer )
A matron plain, domestic )
In housewifery a princip )
In care and pains continu )
Not slow, nor gay, nor prodig ) all.
Yet neighbourly and hospitab )
Her children seven yet living )
Her 67th year hence did c )
To rest her body natur )
In hope to rise spiritu )
On little Stephen, a noted fiddler.
Stephen and Time
Are now both even;
Stephen beat Time,
Now Time beats Stephen.
Life is only pain below,
When Christ appears, then up we go.
IPSWICH.
John Warner.
I Warner once was to myself,
Now Warning am to thee,
Both living, dying, dead I was,
See then thou warned be.