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Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. II. The Seventeenth Century: Ben Jonson to Dryden

Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

An Epitaph on Master Philip Gray (from Underwoods)

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 o’ life have thou and I?