RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS.

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MONKISH VERSES.

(For the _Mirror_.)


MIRROR, vol. xii. pp. 98, 165.

The following is said to have been the epitaph on the tomb of Fair
Rosamond, at Godstow:--

_Hic jacet in tomba, Rosamundae non Rosamundi,
Non redolet sed olet quae redolere solet_.


TRANSLATED.

Within this tomb lies the world's fairest rose;
Whose scent now charms not, but offends the nose.

MIRROR, vol. xiii. p. 98.


The couplet on York Minster, translated.