Can you inform me what language this is? I have submitted the question
to both Universities, and a fortune-teller in the New Cut, but I can get
no satisfactory reply. I am myself inclined to think it either
Phœnician, Chaldee, or ancient Cornish."
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"The following very curious fragment of an epitaph is to be found in a
churchyard not a hundred miles from Biggleswade:—
'Afflictions sore, long time I bore,
Physicians was in vain—'
_Cætera desunt._ Can any of your readers inform me of the name and
profession of the deceased, what he died of, and whether the undertaker
was paid for his funeral?"
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