suggest more especially that process of shuffling off a mortal coil by which snakes shed their skins and chickens their shells:
"THE MORTAL REMAINS OF THE PRE-EXCELLENT JOHN LANE, ESQ.,
EXPECTING TO BE HAPPILY REANIMATED,
HERE ARE DEPOSITED.
A MAN ABOVE TITLES, OR TO WHOSE MERITS TITLES ARE WANTING,
IN THE RECENT INTESTINE TROUBLES UNDER KING CHARLES I,
AND AFTERWARDS IN THE WAR IN HOLLAND UNDER KING CHARLES II,
HE MOST WORTHILY DISCHARGED THE OFFICE OF MILITARY COMMANDER,
HE WAS THE LIBERATOR OF KING AND COUNTRY,
FOR WHEN CHARLES II FROM THE BATTLE OF WORCESTER
WAS FLEEING FAINT AND PURSUED ON EVERY SIDE,
WITH GREATEST PIETY, GREATEST FAITH, GREATEST BRAVERY,
THEREFORE TO THE EXTREME PERIL OF HIS HEAD,
FROM THE WICKED WILES OF THE USURPING TYRANT AND HIS FOLLOWERS STOUTLY RESCUED HIM!
A DEED AMONG ILLUSTRIOUS THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS,
AS THE MONARCH ALSO HIMSELF DID NOT TACITLY ACKNOWLEDGE.
WITH REGAL AUGMENTATION FROM THE ROYAL INSIGNIA
TO THE ANCIENT ARMS OF THE NOBLE LANE FAMILY,
THE SON, THOMAS LANE, ESQ., WORTHY HEIR OF A WORTHY FATHER,
HE DECORATED AND REWARDED IN PLACE OF THE DECEASED,
WHOSE BONES THE ABOVE GRATEFUL AND PIOUS KING
IN THE BASILICK MAUSOLEUMS OF WESTMINSTER
OUT OF HIS LOVE WISHED TO BE MAGNIFICENTLY ENTOMBED,
HAD NOT THE DYING HERO HIMSELF TO THESE HONOURS MODESTLY OBJECTED.
HE WAS BORN THE VIII OF APRIL, 1619,
AND DECEASED THE FIRST OF SEPTEMBER, 1667,
A DEATH DEEPLY LAMENTED."
