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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)

Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke (from Underwoods)

UNDERNEATH this sable hearse

Lies the subject of all verse,

SIDNEY’S sister, PEMBROKE’S mother;

Death! ere thou hast slain another,

Learn’d and fair, and good as she,

Time shall throw a dart at thee.