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With a Taste of the Variety of Other Poems, Left by Sir John Beaumont ... Set Forth by his Sonne, Sir Iohn Beaumont
 

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To the memory of the faire and thrice vertuous Gentlewoman, Mistris Elizabeth Neuell.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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To the memory of the faire and thrice vertuous Gentlewoman, Mistris Elizabeth Neuell.

A Nymph is dead, milde, vertuous, young & faire,
Death neuer counts by dayes, or mon'ths, or yeeres:
Oft in his sight the Infant old appeares,
And to his earthly mansion must repaire.
VVhy should our sighes disturbe the quiet Aire?
For when the flood of Time to ruine beares,
No beauty can preuaile, nor parents teares.
VVhen life is gone, we of the flesh despaire,
Yet still the happy soule immortall liues
In heauen, as we with pious hope conceiue,
And to the Maker endlesse prayses giues,
That she so soone this lothsome world might leaue.
VVe iudge that glorious Spirit doubly blest,
VVhich from short life ascends t'eternall rest.