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

Epitaphs. 2 79He must have language, travail, all the Arts ;Judgement to use ;or else he wants thy parts.He must have friends the highest, able to do ;Such as Maecenas and Augustus too ;He must have such a sicknesse, such a death,'Or else his vain descriptions come beneath.Who then shall write an Epitaph for thee,He must be dead first ;let alone for me.194- On Doctor Whaly.What ? is the young Apollo grownof lateConscious his tender years are nothing fitTo rule the now large Heliconian State,Without a sage Competitor in it ?And therefore sent death, who might Whaly bringTo be a Guardian to this stripling King ;Sure so it is, but if we thoughtitmightBe worse then this :namely, that th'Gods for spightTo earth, had ta'n him hence wee'd ; weep amain,Wee'd weep a Phlegethon, an Ocean ;Which might without the help of Charon 1 s Oares,Ferry his soule to the Elysian shears.195. On Doctor Bambrigg.Were but this Marble vocall, thereSuch an Elogium would appearAs might, though truth did dictate, moveDistrust in either faith or love ;