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COPIED FROM STONES IN DUNDEE HOUFF.*
On William Play fair, who died December 14, 1735.
Beneath this Stone, survivors did inter
The Breathless Corps of William Playfair
He was not fully Eighteen years of age
When he of flow'ring worth, quit the Stage
Some Golden Beams of Heavenly virtues strove
To hold his life unstain'd — His thoughts on things
above.
On Bessie Wright.
In Tomb — altbo consumd my Body lies
Yet my Redeemer Christ, with thir same Eyes
1 shall behold — who of my Life the Prope
Was still my Trust and portion of my Lot
I'll rest in hope, till Christ in clouds appear
W r ho — with the Saints, this body shall uprear
My Soul united — from Spots of Sin shall free
Me with himself in Heavn will Glorifie.
On Walter Couper, Tailzour.
Kynd Comrades ; heir Coupers Corps is leyd
Walter by name — a Tailzour to his Trade.
Bethe kynd & True & Stout and honest hartit
Condol wi' me that he so soon departit
For I avow he never wield a shear
Had better parts than he thats buriet here.
Walter Couper died Dec. 2. 1628. Hfs age 52.
Janet Mortimer his wife
Thomas Simson's Monument.
Man tak hed to mi — How thou sal be
When thou art dead — Dry as a tree
e
Our mess shall eat y — Thy great Bodie
***** shall be like lead
The time hath been — In my youth Green
That I was clean — Of body as ye are
But now my een — Twa Hols thats been
Of me is seen — But Banes bare
1579 Thos. Simson,
* Several of these, it is to be regretted, have been carried off
within these few years, and applied to other purposes.