"[Parody on an Epitaph]"

• Archive Work ID: poems.pare
• Uniform Title: "[Parody on an Epitaph]" [e-text]
• First Line: Now clean, now hideous, mellow now, now gruff,
• Language: English
• First Published: 1882
• References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 82; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 256-257
• Summary: Composed shortly after visiting the church at Appleby, c. 3 September 1767, while on a short tour of the Lake District with Thomas Wharton. First published, untitled, in Gosse, Gray (1882), 176.

2 Manuscripts:

• • Archive MS ID: mss.0136 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [untitled]
  • Date: [1767]
  • Physical Description: 1 page, 63 mm x 197 mm; autograph fair copy
  • Language: English
  • Location: MS Egerton 2400 (Wharton MS), f. 181r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 112, 90; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
  • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here untitled, on a slip of paper annotated in the hand of Thomas Wharton "Extempore Epitaph on Ann Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery, made by M^r. Gray on reading the Epitaph on her mothers tomb in the Church at Appleby composed by the Countess, in the same manner."
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: mss.0135 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [untitled]
  • Date: [between 1845 and 1856]
  • Physical Description: 1 page, 162 mm x 101 mm; transcript in the hand of John Mitford, partial [2 lines]
  • Language: English
  • Location: Add. MS 32562, f. 1, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 90
  • Contents: Transcript, untitled but headed "Grays MSS (in Masons collection)", of a 2-line version beginning "She swept, she hissd, grew mellow & lookd gruff", in the hand of John Mitford, in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. IV, f. 1.