Facetiae : Musarum deliciae, or, The Muses recreation, conteining ...

226 Epitaphs.4. On Queene Anne.Thee to invite the great God sent his star,Whose friends and kinsmen mightie princes are,For though they run the race of men and dye,Death serves but to refine their majesty.So did the queen from hence her court remove,And left the earth to be enthron'd above.Thus is she chang'd, not dead, no good prince dyesBut like the day-star, onely sets to rise.5. On an onely child.Here lyes the fathers hope, the mothers joy,Though they seeme haplesse, happy was the boy,Who of this life, the long and tedious raceHath travell'd out in lesse then 2 moneths space.Oh happie soule, to whom such grace was given,To make so short a voyage backe to heaven,As here a name and christendome t'obtaineAnd to his maker then returne againe.6. On Edmund Spencer, poet laureat.He was, and is (see then where lyes the odds)Once god of poets, poet now to th' gods,And though his time of life be gone about,The life of his lines never shall weare out.