Stay Passenger see where I lie
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so You shall be
Prepare for Death and follow me
Epitaph on a headstone for Major Christian Percy, who had fled Philadelphia during the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 but died anyways. See An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003. p.89
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