of the most beautiful modern edifices in England, did not forget to bestow his care also upon the "acre" dedicated to God, and destined as a resting-place for His people.
There are also many beautiful and touching Epitaphs in our own English tongue;—some in the simple language of our forefathers, written on mouldering and mossy grave-stones of bygone centuries, and some by eminent divines of our own time, less known, but not less beautiful.
Who that has visited the Lady-chapel of Worcester Cathedral, does not remember the small tablet to the wife of the famous Izaak Walton?—
"Here lyeth buried, soe much as could die, of Anne, wife of Izaak Walton, who was a woman of remarkable prudence and of the primitive piety: her great and generall knowledge, being adorned with soe much true humility, and blest with soe much Christian meeknesse, as made her worthy of a more memorable monument.
She died (alas, that she is dead!) the 17th of April, 1662, aged 52.
Study to be like her."
In Claverton Church is a Latin inscription, which, from its simplicity, well deserves the English translation, which is already well-known:—
