This way of indicating the 'name' of my lamented friend has been
found fault with; perhaps rightly so; but I may say in
justification of the double sense of the word, that similar
allusions are not uncommon in epitaphs. One of the best in our
language in verse I ever read, was upon a person who bore the name
of Palmer; and the course of the thought, throughout, turned upon
the Life of the Departed, considered as a pilgrimage. Nor can I
think that the objection in the present case will have much force
with any one who remembers Charles Lamb's beautiful sonnet
addressed to his own name, and ending--
"No deed of mine shall shame thee, gentle name!"