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Date Posted: 05:04:57 10/22/01 Mon
Author: Peter Moon
Author Host/IP: inktomi1-mid.server.ntl.com / 62.254.64.4
Subject: Epitaph

This epitaph appears five times in Brightlingsea, Essex:

"Affliction sore long time she bore
Physicians were in vain
Then God was pleased to give her ease
And freed her fro mher pain."

Is this a local bit of doggerel, or is it used more widely? I've never come across it in Yorkshire or Cornwall, where I've studied numerous epitaphs.
Can anyone enlighten me?

Peter Moon

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