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James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902.

September 25

Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke

By Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

Sister of Sir Philip Sidney. She died on Sept. 25, 1621.

UNDERNEATH this sable herse

Lies the subject of all verse,

Sidney’s sister, Pembroke’s mother;

Death! ere thou hast slain another,

Learn’d and fair, and good as she,

Time shall throw a dart at thee.