Here lie two poor Lovers, who had the mishap,
Though very chaste people, to die of a clap.
~ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744)
an unkind couplet being an Epitaph on the Stanton-Harcourt Lovers who were killed by lightning.
from The Doctor's Quotation Book, A Medical Miscellany edited by Robert Wilkins
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I wonder if the epitaph in the pic is intended for the one six feet under or for the rest of us.
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