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

266 Epitaphs.Of Commendations ;and it is more praise,To dye an honest man, then full of dayes.167. On a Cobler.Here lyes an honest Cobler, whom curst Fate,Perceiving near worn out, would needs translate ;;Twas a good thrifty soul, and time hath bin,He would well liquor'd wade through thick and thinBut now he's gone, 'tis all that can be said,Honest John Cobler is here under-laid.168. On a proud man.Good Reader know, that comest nigh,Here lyes he low, that look'd so high.Both poor and nak'd, that was gay-cloath'd:Of all forsak'd, who others loath'd.He once thought all envy'd his worth :Nor great, nor small, now grudge his turf:The heavenly Cope was his ambition :Three Cubits scope is his fruition.He was above all ;God above him :He did not love all ;nor God love him :He that him taught first to aspire,Now hath him caught, and payes his hire.169. On an irefull and angry man.Here lyes a Fury, hight Sir Ire,That bred, and earn'd immortall fire.