And again:—
“Here lies old John Hildibrodd
Have mercy on him, good God,
As he would do if he was God,
And Thou wert old John Hildibrodd.”
Marion Scott died at Dunkeld, November 21, 1727, aged 100, and was buried in the Abbey. She lived in the reigns of James VI., Charles I., Oliver Cromwell (Commonwealth), Charles II., James II., William III., and Mary II., Anne, George I., and George II. Her tombstone bears this inscription:—
“Stop, passenger, until my life you’ve read;
The living may get knowledge by the dead.
Five times five years I liv’d a virgin life;
Five times five years I was a virtuous wife;