_Curious Epitaph._--The following portion of an epitaph from the tomb of
Thomas Carter, 1706, in the church of St. Gregory, Sudbury, will
doubtless interest some of your readers; it is as well to premise that
he was a very charitable man, as the whole inscription (which would
occupy about forty lines) fully records:
"Viator mirum referam
Quo die efflavit animam Thos. Carter, prædictus,
Acûs foramen transivit Camelus Sudburiensis.
Vade, et si dives sis, tu fac similiter.
Vale."
Permit me to translate it for the benefit of your lady readers:
"Traveller, I will relate a prodigy. On the day whereon the
aforesaid Thomas Carter breathed out his soul, a Sudbury camel
passed through the eye of a needle. Go, and if thou art wealthy,
do thou likewise. Farewell."
The allusion is of course to St. Matthew xix. 24.