 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1868 - 692 pages
...that." A contented mind is a continual feast; surely contentment never went further than this : — " Here lie I at the chancel door ; Here lie I because I'm poor : The further in the more you'll pay, Here lie I as warm as they." One more epitaph and we have done : —... | |
 | Sarah Prideaux Fox - Devon (England) - 1874 - 288 pages
...the following inscription : — " Underneath Lieth the body of Robert, Commonly called Bone Phillip, who died July 27th, 1793, Aged 65 years. At whose...the chancel door; Here lie I because I'm poor; The further in the more you'll pay; Here lie I as warm as they." These lines were supposed to be written... | |
 | American literature - 1875 - 556 pages
...which gives no opportunity tor th" smart reply. It is said to occur at Buckleigh, Devonshire, Eng. : 44 Here lie I at the chancel door, Here lie I because I'm poor. The farther in the more you pay, But here lie I as hot as they." In the same periodical for February, 1819, p. 62, the following,... | |
 | William Henry Kearley Wright - Cornwall (England : County) - 1882 - 276 pages
...following epitaphs from Kingsbridge and neighbourhood . — " Underneath Lieth the body ..f Robert (Commonly called Bone Phillips), Who died July 27th,...65 years. At whose request the following lines are inserted : — " Here lie I at the chancel door ; Here lie I because I'm poor ; The further in the... | |
 | Edmund Goldsmid - Epitaphs - 1885 - 120 pages
...called Bone Phillips), Who died July z7th, 1793, Aged 65 years. At whose request the following lines are inserted : — " Here lie I at the chancel door. Here lie I because I'm poor ; The further in the more you'll pay ; Here lie I as warm as they." In Highweek churchyard, on WILLIAM DOWNING.... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1888 - 640 pages
...Bone Phillips, who, dying at the age of sixty-five, thus revenged himself on his richer neighbours : Here lie I at the chancel door, Here lie I because I'm poor ; The further in the more youll pay Here lie I as warm as they. It was night before we got on board the strange... | |
 | John Lloyd Warden Page - Devon (England) - 1893 - 424 pages
...Underneath lieth the body of Robert, commonly called Bone Phillips, who died July 27th, 1793, agecl ^5 years, at whose request the following lines are here...Here lie I at the chancel door, Here lie I because I am poor, The further in the more you'll pay, Here lie I as warm as they.' ' Bone ' was by trade.... | |
 | George Griffith - Education - 1893 - 384 pages
...Phillip who died July 27"" 1793 Aged 65 Years, At whofe requeft The following lines are here inferted. Here lie I at the Chancel door, Here lie I because I'm poor The forther in the more you'll pay Here lie I as warm aa they have slept in the bedroom he is supposed... | |
 | English periodicals - 1905 - 702 pages
...body of Roberts, Who died July, 27, 1793. Aged 65 years At whose request these lines were inscribed. Here lie I, at the chancel door, Here lie I, because I'm poor. The further in the more you'll puy, Heie lie I as warm as they." Not far from Kingsbridge is the little... | |
 | Charles R. Rowe - Devon (England) - 1907 - 278 pages
..." Phillips (he may have been a bone-setter) who died, aged 65, on 27th July 1793, and reads thus: " Here lie I at the chancel door ; Here lie I because...the more you'll pay; Here lie I as warm as they." Reference was made above to the " Free Schole," the Grammar School which was founded in 1670 by Thomas... | |
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Here lie I at the chancel door; Here lie I because I'm poor; The further in the more you'll pay; Here lie I as warm as they. 
