[1087:1] Now first published from an MS.
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TWO VERSIONS OF THE EPITAPH[1088:1]
Inscribed in a copy of Grew's Cosmologia Sacra (1701)
[Vide ante, p. [491].]
1
Epitaph
in Hornsey Church yard
Hic Jacet S. T. C.
Stop, Christian Passer-by! Stop, Child of God!
And read with gentle heart. Beneath this sod
There lies a Poet: or what once was He.
[Up] O lift thy soul in prayer for S. T. C.
That He who many a year with toil of breath 5
Found death in life, may here find life in death.
Mercy for praise, to be forgiven for fame
He ask'd, and hoped thro' Christ. Do thou the same.