Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. II. The Seventeenth Century: Ben Jonson to Dryden
Ben Jonson (15721637)Epigrams: Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H.
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In a little? Reader, stay.
As much beauty as could die:
Which in life did harbour give
To more virtue than doth live.
Leave it buried in this vault.
One name was E
The other, let it sleep in death,
Fitter, where it died to tell,
Than that it lived at all.Farewell!