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

Epitaphs. 229Yet both are justly question'd, child and motherAre guilty of the killing of each other.Not with an illintent, both did desirePreserves for life, and not a funerall fire ;And yet they needs must dye, and 'was thought bestTo keep the infant in the mother's chest ;It had both life and death from her, the wombeIn which it was begot, became the tombe ;There was some marble sav'd, because in herThe wombe that bare it,was a sepulcher,Whose epitaphs are these, here lies a child that shalBe free from all sins but originalLHere lies a pittied mother that did dyeOnely to beare her poore child companie.14. On M. Washington, page to the Prince.Knew'st thou whose these ashes were ;Reader thou would'st weeping sweare,The rash fate err'd here, as appeares,Counting his vertues for his yeeres,His goodnesse made them so o're scene,Which shew'd him threescore ;at eighteene.Enquire not his disease or paine !He dy'd of nothing else but spayne,Where the worst calenture he feeles,Are Jesuits, and Alguaziles,Where he is not allow'd to have,(Unlesse he steal't) a quiet grave.