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An Epitaph upon Iacobus Sylvius.

Silvius hic situs est gratis qui nil dedit unquam
Mortuus, & gratis quod legis ista dolet.

Here Sylvius lies, who when he liv'd
Gave nothing, and being dead,
He yet laments, that what's writ here,
For nothing should be read.