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The Whole Works of William Browne

of Tavistock ... Now first collected and edited, with a memoir of the poet, and notes, by W. Carew Hazlitt, of the Inner Temple

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AN EPITAPH ON MR. THOMAS AYLEWORTH.

Heere wither'd lyes a flowre, which blowne,
Was cropt assone as it was knowne;
The loss was greate, & the offence,
Since one vnworthie took it hence.
W. Browne.