IRT690 (Q756)

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Funerary verse
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IRT690
Funerary verse

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    IRT690
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    HD059541
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    Creative Commons licence Attribution UK 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/). All reuse or distribution of this work must contain somewhere a link back to the URL http://irt.kcl.ac.uk/
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    Here I lie, Delarkes, having paid the debt of life; light, which is much sweeter than death, I do not see, but I inhabit the house of Pluto and I sleep a bronze-like sleep. I lived for ?sixty-five (? the printed figures make no sense) years, in all wisdom, in teaching of the world, and in usefulness. All this [that you see] my pupils did, who built my tomb in order to advantage me, so that I may be known to all my friends, and, although buried in death, I may be talked of among the living [...] friends; ? no one is immortal.
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    2009
    J. M. Reynolds
    London
    King's College London
    202864
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