Poems consisting of Epistles and Epigrams, Satyrs, Epitaphs and Elogies, Songs and Sonnets With variety of other drolling Verses upon several Subjects. Composed by no body must know whom, and are to be had every body knows where, and for somebody knows what [by John Eliot] |
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An Epitaph upon the chast and fair Lady Walsingam.
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An Epitaph upon the chast and fair Lady Walsingam.
Within this humble herse of clay here liesReliques that heathen men would Idolize;
Such flesh and blood to dust and ashes turn'd,
As since the worlds first birth was never urn'd;
Vertue and beauty had meer strangers been,
Till God and nature lodg'd them in this Inne;
Where having met and kist they kept one room,
Till crewell death remov'd them to this Tombe:
Which sharpey'd vertue quickly did discover,
To narrow for her self and her chast lover:
And that they might no more the subjects be,
To death, or chance or times unconstancie,
She fled to heaven and there is now providing,
A place for both their everlasting biding;
Good Sexton then, untill these lovers meet,
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That Saints and Angells at the last may finde,
This dust as pure, as when 'twas first inshrin'd.
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