and in the French version:
Quant terre auera en terre large terre gayne.
[21.] See the Appendix, p. 46.
[22.] Die Kildare-Gedichte (Bonn, 1904).
[23.] See p. xxxiv above.
[24.] The earliest known epitaphs in English date from the fourteenth century.
[25.] There is no record of this brass at the church of St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate.
[26.] Dated 1590 by Ernest R. Suffling, Epitaphia (1909), p. 382.
[27.] A late instance of its use is given by Ch. Box (Elegies and Epitaphs, Glouc. 1892) as found by him on the tomb of a bricklayer, who died in 1837, aged 90:—
Earth walks upon Earth like glittering gold,