Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. II. The Seventeenth Century: Ben Jonson to Dryden
Ben Jonson (15721637)An Epitaph on Master Philip Gray (from Underwoods)
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And if I had no more to say
But: ‘Here doth lie, till the last day,
All that is left of P
It might thy patience richly pay:
For if such men as he could die,
What surety o’ life have thou and I?