Private John Thoms lies buried here,
Who died of drinking cold small beer:—
Good Christian! drink no beer at all,
Or, if you will drink beer, don't drink it small.

Epitaph, taken from a tomb-stone in Winchester church-yard, which tradition ascribes to Hoadly. — William Maginn (alias "Odoherty"), "Maxims", pt. 3, no. 83, in Blackwood's Magazine, vol. 16, no. 92 (September 1824), p. 335