This was translated into German by Theodor Fontane (Poems, 4th edit., Berlin, 1892, p. 447). Cf. Fiedler, Mod. Lang. Review, April 1908.
Other inscriptions are as follows:—
On an old brass, quoted by W. Williams, Notes and Queries, I. vii. 577, and thought by him to belong to the Church of St. Helen’s, London[25]:—
‘Here lyeth ye bodyes of
James Pomley, ye sonne of ould
Dominick Pomley and Jane his
wyfe: ye said James deceased ye 7th
day of Januarie Anno Domini 1592
he beyng of ye age of 88 years, &
ye sayd Jane deceased ye — day
of — D —
Earth goeth upõ Earth as moulde upõ moulde;
Earth goeth upõ Earth all glittering as golde,
As though earth to ye earth never turne sholde;
And yet shall earth to ye earth sooner than he wolde.
On a tomb at Edmonton of unknown date (possibly sixteenth century), mentioned by Weever (Ancient Funerall Monuments) in 1631, and by Pettigrew (Chronicles of the Tombs, p. 67) in 1857:—
Erth goyth upon erth as mold upon mold,