Pauperumque,

30Nudorum jam, atque esurientium

Importuna Viscera,

Monumenta, hoc marmore longe perenniora.

Maerens posuit pientissima Conjunx.

On Sir John Micklethwaite's Monument, &c.] Micklethwaite (1612-82) was President of the College of Physicians 1676-81 (lustrum integrum).

8 Et quod excurrit is a technical Latin phrase in scientific post-classical writers for 'and more', 'above'.

10 emenso ... stadio.] The exact threescore years and ten.

33 pientissima.] The usual form for inscriptions, though piissimus (in spite of Cicero's condemnation) was used elsewhere.