If Life was a thing
That money could buy,
The Rich would live,
And the poor would die.
Here is another:
Poor Martha Snell has gone away,
Her would if she could, but her couldn’t stay,
She had two sore legs and a badish cough,
But it were her legs as carried her off.
Less comic, but more witty, is the epitaph found at Kingsbridge, S. Devon.