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

Epitaphs. 277Reader, wo'dst thou more have known ?Ask his story, not this stone ;That will speak what this can't tellOf his glory.So farewell.191. Another on Ben: J.The Muses fairest light, in no dark time ;The wonder of a learned Age ;the lineThat none can passe ;the most proportion'd witTo Nature : the best Judge of what was fit :The deepest, plainest, highest, clearest pen :The voyce most eccho'd by consenting men :The soul which answer'd best to all well saidBy others and which most : requitall made :Tun'd to the highest key of ancient Rome,Returning all her musick with her own.In whom with nature, study claim'd a part,And yet who to him selfe ow'd all his Art ;Here lyes Ben: Johnson, every age will lookWith sorrow here, with wonder on his Book.192. On Mr. Francis Quarks.To them that understand themselves so well,As what, not who lyes here, to ask, I'l tell,What I conceive, envy dare not deny,Far both from falshood, and from flattery.Here drawn to land by death, doth lyeA vessell fitter for the sky,