For you must die, like Isaac Reed,
Though you may read till your eyes ache.
Cecil Clay, the counsellor of Lord Chesterfield, directed this whimsical pun upon his name to be put on his tombstone:
Sum quod fui. (I am what I was.)
On an Oxford organist:
Here lies one blown out of breath,
Who lived a merry life and died a Merideth.
On a Norwich celebrity:
Hic jacet Plus, plus non est hic,
Plus et non plus, quomodo sic?