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Epitaph On Elizabeth

Wouldst thou hear what man can say

In a little? Reader, stay.

Underneath this stone doth lie

As much beauty as could die;

Which in life did harbor give

To more virtue than doth live.

 

If at all she had a fault,

Leave it buried in this vault.

One name was Elizabeth,

Th' other let it sleep with death;

Fitter, where it died to tell,

Than that it lived at all. Farewell.

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Written by
Ben Jonson
1572-1637 / English
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