Both Uses
epitaph
in
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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- After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.†
p. 115.4 *epitaph = a short text in memory of a dead person
- But, by 'r Lady, he must build churches, then, or else shall he suffer not thinking on, with the hobby-horse, whose epitaph is "For oh, for oh, the hobby-horse is forgot."†
p. 145.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(epitaph) a short text in memory of a dead person -- especially text written on a tombstone
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)