Pershore.
Your correspondent ERICA gives us some quotations and epitaphs, in which
the metaphor of an Inn is applied both to life and death. I find the former
of these ideas embodied in the following distich, copied from a tombstone
at Llangollen in North Wales, a village much frequented not only by
tourists, but by holiday-makers from all the surrounding districts; for
whose especial benefit I conceive the epitaph to have been written:
"Our life is but a summer's day,
Some only breakfast, and away;
Others to dinner stay, and are full fed;
The oldest man but sups, and goes to bed.
Large his account, who lingers out the day:
Who goes the soonest, has the least to pay."