I gyve unto my wief my second best bed with the furniture (Modern spelling: I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.)

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care

Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear, to dig the dust enclosed here. Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.

On a day-alack the day!- Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair Playing in the wanton air

If I should ever by chance grow rich I'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch, Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater, And let them all to my eldest daughter.

There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again. You may be thankful that twenty years from no…

Your first duty, in completing your service to your race, is to feel within you all your ancestors. Your second duty is to throw light on their onrush and to c…