Both Uses of
epitaph
in
Much Ado About Nothing
- Your daughter here the princes left for dead; Let her awhile be secretly kept in, And publish it that she is dead indeed: Maintain a mourning ostentation; nd on your family's old monument Hang mournful epitaphs and do all rites That appertain unto a burial.†
Scene 4.1 *
- I cannot bid you bid my daughter live; That were impossible; but, I pray you both, Possess the people in Messina here How innocent she died; and if your love Can labour aught in sad invention, Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb, And sing it to her bones: sing it to-night.†
Scene 5.1
Definition:
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(epitaph) a short text in memory of a dead person -- especially text written on a tombstone