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262 Epitaphs.158. On a Cock-master.Farewell stout Hot-spur, now the battel's done,In which thou'rt foil'd, and death hath overcome,Having o'r-match'd thy strength that made thee stoopShe quickly forc'd thee on the pit to droop :From whence thou art not able rise or stir ;For death is now become the vanquisher.Jj;o -,*: J,,- S17 -vA-A TiiitG-Ki airfsawD lit'//159. On a Mathematician.Loe, in small closure of this earthly bed,Rests he, that heavens vast motions measured,Who having known both of the Land and sky,More than fam'd Archimed, or Ptolomy,Would further presse, and like a Palmer went,With Jacobs staffe, beyond the Firmament.1 60. On a Taylor.Jack Snip the Taylor's dead, 'tis now too lateTo brawle or wrangle with the cruel fate,Yet sure 'twas hardly done to clip his thred,Before he gave them leave, in his own bed.He dy'd at forty just ; poor shred of baseMortality !' who pities not his case ?Of a whole ell of cloth, he would not takeAbove a nail at most, for conscience sake :But of his span of life, I dare to say,Death stole not much lesse than one half away ;