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traditional beginning to an epitaph, usually on a tombstone; literally: here lies
1888London in 1731Under the figure of the king. Hic jacet Henricus ejus nominis septimus, Anglicae quondam rex, Edmundi Richmondiae comitis filius, qui die 22 Aug.1900Thomas HariotO eloquent, just and mightie Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast perswaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou onely hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawne together all the farre stretched greatnesse, all the pride, crueltie, and ambition, of man, and covered it all over with those two narrow words: Hic jacet.1900EmbersA stone, 'Hic Jacet'—no more; Let the world wonder at will; You have the key to the door, I have the cenotaph still.1903Castilian DaysPassing by a world of artistic beauties which never tire the eyes, but soon would tire the chronicler and reader, stepping over the broad bronze slab in the floor which covers the dust of the haughty primate Porto Carrero, but which bears neither name nor date, only this inscription of arrogant humility, hic jacet pulvis cinis et nihil, we walk into the verdurous and cheerful Gothic cloisters.Labels: Don Manoel Gonzales, Gilbert Parker, Henry Stevens, John Hay
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