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The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington

... digested into fovre bookes: three whereof neuer before published
Harington, John (1560-1612)

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42 An Epitaph in commendation of George Turberuill, a learned Gentleman.

VVhen rimes were yet but rude, thy pen endeuored
To pollish Barbarisme with purer stile:

Whē times were grown most old, thy heart perseuered
Sincere & iust, vnstaind with gifts or guile.
Now liues thy soule, though frō thy corps disseuered,
There high in blisse, here cleare in fame the while;
To which I pay this debt of due thanks-giuing,
My pen doth praise thee dead, thine grac'd me liuing
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