An architect, Robert Burn, was commissioned to produce one, and Burns composed the following epitaph. The two additional stanzas were written in his Second Commonplace Book. The stanza form is ...

This encounter with the devil long pre-dated his actual demise. William Fisher, however hard to like, at least had the satisfaction of outliving his epitaph, and its author, by thirteen years.

Among those displays, a Tang Dynasty (618-907) epitaph can be viewed by the public for the first time since its excavation in 1997. The epitaph, engraved on a stone stele, is a national first-class ...