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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.)