EVERSLEY, (Hampshire) at the entrance of the Co. in the road from London to Basingstoke. In the Ch. here lies buried Mr.
Alexander Ross, on whose tomb-stone we find this most remarkable epitaph: Hospes, siste gradum, cineresque bos adspice,
disces Quid sum, quid fueram; quidque futurus ero; *Ros fueram; nunc sum pulvis; mox umbra futurus Ros abiit; pulvis
spargitur; umbra fugit. Quid tute es, disce binc; quid cuncta bumana; quid? audi; Sunt quod ego; pulvis, ros, cinis,
umbra, nihil, i.e. " Stop, stranger, view this dust, and " you will see " What I now am, what have been, " what shall be.
" I have been Dew *, am dust, shall " be a shade; " The Dew is gone, dust scatter'd, " the shade fled: " What thyself art,
hence learn, " what all things are; " What are all things in human na-" ture, hear; " That they are all what I now am; "
be taught " They're dust, are dew, are ashes, " shadow, nought" * Ros, in English, signifies Dew.