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

Epitaphs. 261155. On one Andrew Leigh, who was veoct with a shrewdwife.Here lyes Leigh, who vext with a shrewd wife,To gain his quiet, parted with his life ;But see the spight! she that had alwayes crostHim living, dyes, and means to hunt his Ghost.But she may faile,for Andrew out of doubtWill cause his brother Peter shut her out.156. In quendam.Stay mortall, stay, remove not from this Tomb,Before thou hast considered well thy doome ;My bow stands ready bent, and couldst it see,Mine arrow's drawn to th'head, and aims at thee :Prepare yet wandring Ghost, take home this line ;The grave that next isopen'd may be thine.157' On a vertuous youth.Reader, let a stone thee tellThat in this body there did dwellA soule, as heavenly, rich, and good,As e'r could live in flesh and blood :And therefore heav'n that held it deare,Did let it stay the lesse while here,Whose Corps here sacred ashes makes ;Thus heav'n and earth have parted stakes.