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The inscription on top of the stone, by the Wiltshire antiquary John Aubrey, reads: Know, stranger, ere thou pass, beneath this stone Lie John Tradescant, grandsire, father, son The last dy'd in his spring, the other two, Liv'd till they had travelled Orb and Nature through, As by their choice Collections may appear, Of what is rare in land, in sea, in air, Whilst they (as Homer's Iliad in a nut) A world of wonders in one closet shut, These famous Antiquarians that had been Both Gardeners to the Rose and Lily Queen, Transplanted now themselves, sleep here & when Angels shall with their trumpets waken men, And fire shall purge the world, these three shall rise And change this Garden then for Paradise. The nut reference seemed curious, but apparently when Old Pliny was on about people with amazing eye-sight (book 7, chapter 21) one of the examples he picked out was the time that somebody wrote the whole Iliad out in such tiny script that the whole parchment could fit in the shell of a nut. |
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