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

Epitaph on Master Philip Gray

Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

READER, stay:

And if I had no more to say

But: ‘Here doth lie, till the last day,

All that is left of PHILIP GRAY’,

It might thy patience richly pay:

For if such men as he could die,

What surety of life have thou and I?