20 SEPTEMBER 1884, Page 15

[To THE EDITOR OF THF. " SPECTATOR...] SIR,—A few years

ago, I copied this epitaph from a mural tablet in the little old parish church of Minster, near Boseastle

in Cornwall. I think it is more quaint than most :—

"Forty-nine years they lived as man and wife, And what's more rare thus many without strife; She first departing, he a few weeks tried To live without her, could not, and so died. Both in their wedlock's great Sabbatic rest, To be where there's no wedlock ever blest, And having here a jubilee begun,

They're taken hence that it muy ne'er be done."