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The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stript of its lettering and gilding), Lies here, food for worms; But the work shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more elegant edition, revised and corrected by the author.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN-Epitaph on Himself. Written in 1728. Revised by himself from an earlier one. JOHN DAVIS, in Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America, gives similar epitaph in Latin, said to have been written by "An Eton scholar." (See also CAPEN)

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Quand je serai la, je serai sans souci.

When I shall be there, I shall be without care. FREDERICK THE GREAT. His inscription written at the foot of the statue of Flora at Sans Souci, where he wished to be buried. His body lies in the church at Potsdam.

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Here lies Fred,

Who was alive and is dead.
Had it been his father,
I had much rather.
Had it been his brother,
Still better than another.

Had it been his sister,

No one would have missed her.
Had it been the whole generation,
Still better for the nation.
But since 'tis only Fred,
Who was alive, and is dead,
There's no more to be said.

Epitaph to FREDERICK, PRINCE OF WALES (Father of George III), as given by THACKERAY-Four Georges. Probably version of a French epigram "Colas est morte de maladie," found in Les Epigrammes de Jean Ogier Gombauld. (1658) Several early versions of same. See Notes and Queries. May 3, 1902. P. 345.

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"Fuller's earth."

THOMAS FULLER-Epitaph written by Himself.

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Farewell, vain world, I've had enough of thee, And Valies't not what thou Can'st say of me; Thy Smiles I count not, nor thy frowns I fear, My days are past, my head lies quiet here. What faults you saw in me take Care to shun, Look but at home, enough is to be done. Epitaph over WILLIAM HARVEY in Greasley Churchyard, England. (1756) A travesty of the same is over the tomb of PHILLIS ROBINSON, in that churchyard. (1866) See ALFRED STAPLETON-The Churchyard Scribe. P. 95.

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Underneath this sable herse
Lies the subject of all verse,-
Sydneye's sister, Pembroke's mother.
Death, ere thou hast slaine another,
Faire and learn'd and good as she,
Tyme shall throw a dart at thee.

To Lady

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