 | English literature - 1818 - 596 pages
...On a man who wat too poor to be buried with hit Relation! in the Church. Here lie I, at the Chancel door, Here I lie, because I'm poor ; The further in the more to pay ; Here I lie, as warm as they '. ON SIR FRANCIS VERE, At Landulph, in Corntaall. When VKBE sought... | |
 | Epitaphs - 1822 - 382 pages
...on a man who was Coo poor to be buried with his relations in the church-. Here lie I at the chancel door, Here I lie because I'm poor ; The further in, the more to pay, Here I lie as warm as they. In St. Paul's Cathedral, on SIR PHILIP SYDNEY, KNT. who received... | |
 | 1828 - 488 pages
...man who was too poor to be buried with hit rich relations in the church. HEHE lie I at the chancel door, Here I lie because I'm poor, The further in the more to pay, Here I lie as warm as they; The following was put on the grave stone oj a tragedian, at his... | |
 | John Southerden Burn - 1829 - 276 pages
...thought unworthy of insertion at the end of this chapter. In Kingsbridge Churchyard. " Here lie I at the Church Door Here I lie because I'm poor The further in, the more to pay Here I lie, as warm as they." ^ In the month of June, 1811, a stone was placed on the south... | |
 | Thomas Clifton Paris - 1851 - 312 pages
...inscribed with the following verse : — " STOKE ST. NECTAN, HARTLAND. Here I lie outside the chancel door ; Here I lie because I'm poor. The further in, the more they pay ; But here 1 lie as warm as they." The tomb, however, gives the lie to the assertion of poverty. The tower of... | |
 | Epitaphs, Augustus John Cuthbert HARE - 1856 - 86 pages
...was once surrounded by a brass rim, with the following verse : — " HEBE I lie outside the chancel door ; Here I lie because I'm poor : The further in, the more they pay ; But here I lie as warm as they." " HEBE old John Kandal lies, Who, counting from his tale, Liv'd threescore years and... | |
 | 1857 - 426 pages
...surrounding which was what we must consider a travestie of the above : — " Here I lie outside the chancel door ; Here I lie because I'm poor : The further in, the more they pay ; But here I lie as warm as they." Perhaps the funniest of all is from a churchyard in Cambridgeshire : — " Here lies... | |
 | George Tugwell - 1857 - 300 pages
...person named Docton : the stone still remains near the Chancel gates : "Here lie I outside the Chancel door, Here I lie because I'm poor: The further in the more they pay; But here I lie as warm as they. " In the Nave, under the Rood-screen ; Stop gentle reader — cast an eye, As thou art... | |
 | Silvester Tissington - Epitaphs - 1857 - 560 pages
...who was too poor to be buried with his rich relations in the church : — ' Here lie I at the chancel door, Here I lie because I'm poor, The further in — the more to Here I lie as warm as they." pay, " How sweet a thing is death, to all who know That all on earth... | |
 | Literature - 1861 - 674 pages
...to bo buried with his relations in the church of Kingsbridgo : — " Пеге lie I, at the chancel door ; Here I lie, because I'm poor; The further in the more to pay ; Here I lie as warm as they." From All the Year Round. THE PA1XTER AND THE APPARITION. SOME... | |
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I'm poor : The further in, the more they pay ; But here I lie as warm as they. 
