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Wood Ditton, tombstone 1929 (photo W M Palmer) (Cambridgeshire Collection)This is the burial place of William Simonds:
Notable Epitaphs in Cambridgeshire II: from Leaflets of Local Lore by Urbs Camboritum (Cambs Collection)
William Simonds’s epitaph:
Here lies my corpse who as the man
That lovd a so in a dripping pan:
But now believe me I am dead,
Now here the pan stands at my head.
Still for sop to the last I cry’d
But could not eat and so I died.
My neighbours they perhaps may laugh
Now they do read my epitaph.
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