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

230 Epitaphs.He needs no other epitaph or stoneBut this, here lyes lov'dWashington,Write this in teares, in that loose dust,And every greiv'd beholder must,When he weighs him, and knowes his yeeres,Renew the letters with his teares.15. On the death cf Mary, Counfesse of Pembroke*Under-neath this sable hearse,Lies the subject of all verse.Sidneys sister Pembrookes mother,Death e're thou hast kill'd another,Faire and learned good as shee,Time shall throw a dart at thee.Marble pillers let none raiseTo her name for after dayes.Some kind woman borne as shee,Reading this as Niobe,Shall turne marble and become,Both thy mourner and thy tombe.1 6. On the King of Sweden's death.'Tis sin to praise or weepe ;oh let me ventMy passion onely in astonishment.Who sheads a teare for thee (brave Swead thus slain)His eyes do penance for his weaker braine ;And yet those eyes themselves deserve this doome,Which thus mistake a trophic for a tombe.