Will prove his title fair.
Though now, in death’s em-brace,
A mould-ering heap our luckless brother lies,
He’ll re-appear on Gabriel’s royal-chase,
And frisk-it to the skies.
BREVITY.
Thorpe’s
Corpse.
The epitaph on Dr. Caius, the founder of the college which bears his name, cannot be blamed for prolixity. Dr. Fuller remarks, “few men might have had a longer, none ever had a shorter epitaph.”
Fui Caius