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Aberconway Church yard

   "Many a holy text around she shews,
   "That teach the Mystic Moralist to Die

On a monument in the center of this Ground, the following curious Epitaph is inscribed

    Epitaph on a Watchmaker

Here lies an Horizontal position

         the outside case of

Peter Pendulum, Watchmaker Whose abilities, in that line, where an honour

         to his Profession
    Integrity was the [overwritten: lower case m] Main Spring
    and prudence the regulator.
    Of all the actions of his Life.
    Humane, Generous, and Liberal
         his hand never stopped,
         till he had relieved Distress.
   So nicely regulated were all his Motions
          that he never went wrong
          except when set a going
                 by people 
          who did not know
                 his Key.
          even then he was easily
                 set right again
    He had the art of Disposing his time so well
         What his hours glided away
                 in one contrived wound [round?]
                 of pleasure and delight
         till an unlucky Mingle put
                 a period of [to?] his Existence 
         He Departed his Life wound up
                in hopes of being taken in hand
                       By has Maker
        And of being thoroughly cleaned, repaired
               and set a going
       in the world to come