Inscription on a Tombstone in a Churchyard at Truro, Cornwall.

A dyer born, a dyer bred,

Lies numbered here among the dead;

Dyers, like mortals doomed to die,

Alike fit food for worms supply.

Josephus Dyer was his name;

By dyeing he acquired fame;

'Twas in his forty-second year

His neighbours kind did him inter.

Josephus Dyer, his first son,