Funny Scottish Epitaph: the auntie from Crail, Fife

Here lies my good and gracious Auntie,

Wham Death has packed in his portmanty,

Threescore and ten years did God gift her,

And here she lies, wha de’il daurs lift her?

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

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