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Quotation dates: 1420, 1531-1586
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Epitaph(e, Epithaf, n. [ME. epitaphe, -taffe (1390), epythaphe, OF. epitaphe.] = Epitaphyn. — c1420 Wynt. vi. 578.
Thare enteryd yhit he lyis Wnder epitaphe on this wyis 1531 Bell. Boece I. p. lix.
Thair epithafis, and superscriptioun abone thair sepulturis a1570-86 Hudson Maitland Folio MS clxxxi.
Epitaph of schir Richard Maitland of Lethingtoun a1585 Maitland Quarto MS xcii.
Epitaphe vpon the death of … Sir Richard Metland
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