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Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916.

Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H.

Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

WOULDST thou hear what many say

In a little? Reader, stay.

Underneath this stone doth lie

As much beauty as could die;

Which in life did harbour give

To more virtue than doth live.

If at all she had a fault,

Leave it buried in this vault.

One name was ELIZABETH,

The other, let it sleep with death:

Fitter where it died to tell

Than that it lived at all.Farewell!