=T=hough only Stone Salutes the reader's eye,
=H=ere (in deep silence) precious dust doth lye,
=O=bscurely Sleeping in Death's mighty store,
=M=ingled with common earth till time's no more.
=A=gainst Death's Stubborne laws, who dares repine,
=S=ince So much Merrett did his life resigne.
=M=urmurs and Tears are useless in the grave,
=E=lse hee whole Vollies at his Tomb might have.
=R=est in Peace; who like a faithful steward,
=R=epair'd the Church, the Poore and needy cur'd;
=E=ternall mansions do attend the Just,
=T=o clothe with Immortality their dust,
=T=ainted (whilst under ground) with wormes and rust."
Under the shadow of the ancient church of Bakewell, Derbyshire, is a
stone containing a long inscription to the memory of John Dale,
barber-surgeon, and his two wives, Elizabeth Foljambe and Sarah
Bloodworth. It ends thus:--
"Know posterity, that on the 8th of April, in the year of grace
1757, the rambling remains of the above John Dale were, in the 86th
yeare of his pilgrimage, laid upon his two wives.
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