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The works of Alexander Pennecuik

of New-Hall, M.D.; containing the description of Tweeddale, and miscellaneous poems. A new edition, with copious notes, forming a complete history of the county to the present time. To which are prefixed, memoirs of Dr Pennecuik, and a map of the shire of Peebles, or Tweeddale

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EPITAPH UPON THE TOMBSTONE OF OLD MR ROBERT ELLIOT, MINISTER OF LINTON,
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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EPITAPH UPON THE TOMBSTONE OF OLD MR ROBERT ELLIOT, MINISTER OF LINTON,

AT THE DESIRE OF YOUNG MR ROBERT, HIS SON AND SUCCESSOR, Anno 1682.

Stay passenger, weep and retire,
Thy fatal hour approacheth near,
Let Elliot's cold stone monument,
Teach poor frail mortals to repent.
Powerful he was, in terms right ample,
To preach by precept and example;
No man he judged but himself,
And scorned that cut-throat worldly pelf.

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His praise in one line to insert,
God's book he had by tongue and heart;
His head was learned, his face was gracious,
His heart was honest, his soul's now precious.