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

Epitaphs. 259Twice forty (bating but one yeare,And thrice three weeks) he lived here.Whom gentle fate translated henceTo a more happy Residence.Yet, Reader let me tell thee this,(Which from his Ghost a promise is)If here ye will some few tears shed,He'l never haunt ye now he's dead. \151. On a Maid.Here she lyes (inBed spice)Fair as Eve in Paradise.For her beautyit was suchPoets co'd not praise too much.Virgins come, and in a RingHer supreamest Requiem sing ;Then depart, but see ye treadLightly, lightly ore the dead.152. On Husband and Wife.To these, whom Death again did wed,This Grave's the second Marriage-Bed.For though the hand of Fate could force,'Twixt soule and body a Divorce ;It could not sever Man and wife,Because they both liv'd but one life ;s 2