Funny Scottish Epitaphs: Tammas Messer from Dundee

Here lies the banes o’ Tammas Messer

Of tarry woo he was a dresser:

He had some faults and mony merits,

And died o’ drinkin’ ardent spirits.

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

 

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