Mary was not famous during her life, but her gravestone has garnered much attention over the years. Her witty epitaph has been published in books, and upon an internet search for "Mary Lefavour", one finds many websites where her epitaph is mentioned.
It reads:
Reader paƒs on, ne'er waƒte your time
On bad biography, and bitter rhyme.
For what I am, this cumb'rous clay enƒures,
And what I was, is no affair of yours.
It reads:
Reader paƒs on, ne'er waƒte your time
On bad biography, and bitter rhyme.
For what I am, this cumb'rous clay enƒures,
And what I was, is no affair of yours.
Mary was not famous during her life, but her gravestone has garnered much attention over the years. Her witty epitaph has been published in books, and upon an internet search for "Mary Lefavour", one finds many websites where her epitaph is mentioned.
It reads:
Reader paƒs on, ne'er waƒte your time
On bad biography, and bitter rhyme.
For what I am, this cumb'rous clay enƒures,
And what I was, is no affair of yours.
It reads:
Reader paƒs on, ne'er waƒte your time
On bad biography, and bitter rhyme.
For what I am, this cumb'rous clay enƒures,
And what I was, is no affair of yours.
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