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Epigrams: Divine and Moral

By Sir Thomas Vrchard

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25. That too much bewailing, and griefe is to be avoided at Funerals, to one lamenting the decease of a friend.

It were more fit, that you relinquish'd orrow,
Then that you should be left by it; that may,

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What ever may be done, be done to morrow:
And what to morrow may be done to day;
We should therefore, as soon's we can desist
From that, wherein we cannot long insist.