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

Epitaph on the Countess Dowager of Pembroke

William Browne (c. 1590–c. 1645)

UNDERNEATH this sable herse

Lies the subject of all verse:

Sidney’s sister, Pembroke’s mother:

Death, ere thou hast slain another

Fair and learn’d and good as she,

Time shall throw a dart at thee.