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Thread #163979   Message #3919130
Posted By: Rusty Dobro
22-Apr-18 - 08:58 AM
Thread Name: BS: On my gravestone
Subject: RE: BS: On my gravestone
And another from Bury St Edmunds churchyard:

Reader

Pause at this Humble Stone

a Record

The fall of unguarded Youth

By the allurements of vice

and the treacherous snares

of Seduction

SARAH LLOYD

on the 23d of April 1800

in the 22d Year of her Age

Suffered a Just but ignominous

Death

for admitting her abandoned seducer

into the Dwelling House of her Minstrefs

in the Night of 3rd Oct

1799

and becoming the Instrument

in his Hands of the crimes

of Robbery and Houseburning

These were her last Words

May my example be a

warning to Thousands.

(Personally, I've always quite enjoyed the treacherous snares of seduction.)