...vile " wag " schoolmaster or Burn himself (?) : — " Here I, Thomas Wharton, do lie, With LuciferJ under my head : And Nelly my wife hard by, And Nancy as cold as lead. Oh ! how can I speak without dread, Who could my sad fortune abide ? With one devil under my head,! And another laid...

...were parodied in the eighteenth century thus : — " Here I, Thomas Wharton, do lie With Lucifer 1 under my head ; And Nelly, my wife, hard by And Nancy as cold as lead. Oh ! how can I speak without dread ? Who could my sad fortune abide, With one devil under my head, And another laid...

...parody, which was written by Dr. Burn, joint author of the History of Cumberland and Westmorland: — " Here I Thomas Wharton do lie, With Lucifer under my...hard by, And Nancy as cold as lead. Oh, how can I speak without dread ? Who could my sad fortune abide ? With one devil under my head, And another laid...

...inscription during the time he was teaching a school at Kirkby Stephen. The paraphrase runs thus : — Here I, Thomas Wharton, do lie, With Lucifer under...hard by, And Nancy as cold as lead. Oh, how can I speak without dread, Who could my sad fortune abide? With one devil under my head And another laid...

...inscription during the time he was teaching a school at Kirkby Stephen. The paraphrase runs thus :— Here I, Thomas Wharton, do lie, With Lucifer under...wife hard by, And Nancy as cold as lead. Oh, how can 1 speak without dread, Who could my sad fortune abide ? With one devil under my head And another laid...

...mistake to Burn in verses that were a far cry from the honour and lineage set forth by the Latin epitaph: Here I Thomas Wharton do lie, With Lucifer under my...hard by, And Nancy as cold as lead: Oh, how can I speak without dread! Who could my sad fortune abide, s2 Blomefield, Collectanea Cantabrigiensia, pp....