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Epig. XXX.

In obitum nobilissimi benignissimique viri nuper defuncti Roberti Wroth Militis, &c.
VVorthes chiefe is dead, since worthie he is gone,
Who of that name most worthie was alone;
(Yee poore and hungrie all) his graue goe find,
That holds the bodie of so faire a mind.
There sit yee downe and sigh for bountie dead:
Bountie with that braue Knight to Heauen is fled:
Where since he came, heauen as it doth appeare,
Wanting a starre to set by bounteous Clere;
In Wroth did place the O before the R,
And made it Worth, which since is made a star.