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Epitaph for a Brewer

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I remembered something like this from way back, I forget where, but found it again tonight

Poor John Scott lies buried here;

Tho’ once he was both hale and stout,

Death stretched him on his bitter bier:

In another world he hops about

This is from a fascinating work of - scholarship really - entitled Liquid Epitaphs. Access it here https://online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica/article/11/2/94/29924/Liquid-Epitaphs


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