GaRstTIN—On some Sixteenth Century Inscriptions. 438 
This is a variation of one of the simplest and commonest formulas 
im medizyal epitaphs. An early example in Norman-French is found 
at Lewes on the tomb of John Warren, seventh Karl of Surrey, who 
died in 1304 :— 
“¢ Vous ge passez, on bouche close 
Pries pur cely ke cy repose : 
Eu vie come vous estis jadis fu, 
Et vous tiel serietz come je su.”’ 
Almost identical with this, but longer, is the epitaph in Canterbury 
Cathedral on Edward the Black Prince, 1376, given in “‘ Pettigrew’s 
Epitaphs,” p. 42. The late eminent antiquary, Mr. J. Gough Nichols 
published, in the Gentleman’s Magazine, an English metrical transla- 
tion of twenty-eight lines, commencing :— 
‘¢ Whoe’er thou art, with lips comprest, 
That passest where this corps doth rest, 
To that I tell thee, list, O man, 
So far as I to tell thee can, 
Such as thou art I was but now, 
And as I am so shall be thou.’’ 
A very doggrel and unmetrical English version of this common 
subject will be found in the Preface to ‘‘ Pettigrew.’’ See also examples 
at pages 63, 64, 66, 72, 73, &c., of that book. An Irish example is 
to be found printed in the Al. Hist. and Arch. Journal of Ireland, of 
April, 1870, p. 119. 
Perhaps I may venture, in conclusion, to offer my rendering of the 
less elaborate ‘‘ moral’’ on the Leighlin tomb :— 
‘¢ All ye travellers who pass by 
Think, I pray, of me; 
As ye are so once was I; 
As I am so ye shall be.” 
