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“Requiescat In Pace”: Solution

Posted in Puzzles by Greg Ross on February 16th, 2007

Solution to Requiescat In Pace:

Just ignore the punctuation:

“Beneath
this stone reposeth
Claud Coster,
tripe-seller, of Impington,
as doth his consort Jane.”

(Cited in William Andrews, Curious Epitaphs, 1899)