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Epitaph of the Good Earl of Courtenay. (Gibbon: History of the Courtenay Family.)
The epitaph in St. George’s church, Doncaster, runs thus:
“How now, who is here?
I, Robin of Doncastere
And Margaret, my feere.
That I spent, that I had;
That I gave, that I have;
That I left, that I lost.”
This is a free translation of Martial’s distich—
“Extra fortunam est quidquid donatur amicis Quas dederis, solas semper habebis opes.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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