EPITAPHS

ON A FARTHING-GATHERER

1806.

HERE lies Jamie Wight, wha was wealthy an' proud,
Few shar'd his regard an far fewer his goud ;
He liv'd unesteem'd, and he died unlamented,
The kirk gat his gear an auld Jamie is sainted.


This Epitaph first appeared in 1806 in Maver's Glasgow Gleaner. See Note to No. 5.—Ed.

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