23 AUGUST 1884, Page 16

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

Sia,—The following epitaph, copied from a stone in Shotteswell Churchyard, may possibly be of interest to some of your readers.. The date is 1771 :—

"This world's a city,

Full of crooked streets, And death's the market-place Where all men meet.

Was life a merchandise That men could buy, The rich would always live, The poor mast die."

—I am, Sir, &c., C. T. BEIDE.

Shotteswell Vicarage, Banbury, 1884.