Aberdeen Churchyard

Here lie the bones of Elisabeth Charlotte,

Born a virgin, died a harlot.

She was aye a virgin at seventeen,

A remarkable thing in Aberdeen.

Raymond Lamont-Brown: Scottish Epitaphs. Edinburgh, Chambers; 1990

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