I have somewhere met with the epitaph of a charitable man, which has very much pleased me. I cannot recollect the words, but the sense of it is to this purpose: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman

Essay (1711-09-27), The Spectator, No. 177
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The epitaph was on a tomb in St. George's Church at Doncaster, Yorkshire, and read:

How now, who is heare?
I Robin of Doncastere,
And Margaret, my feare [wife]:
That I spent, that I had,
That I gave, that I have,
That I left, that I lost
A. D. 1579.
Quoth Robertus Byrks, who in this World did reign Three score years and seven, & yet lived not one.

(There are variation of spelling in various records of this epitaph, e.g., 1, 2, 3)