Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 2 by  Arthur Quiller-Couch

Epitaph I: On Elizabeth L. H.

Wouldst thou hear what Man can say

In a little? Reader, stay.

Underneath this stone doth lie

As much Beauty as could die:

Which in life did harbour give

To more Virtue than doth live.

If at all she had a fault,

Leave it buried in this vault.

One name was Elizabeth,

The other, let it sleep with death:

Fitter, where it died, to tell

Than that it lived at all. Farewell.

— Ben Jonson
1573-1637   


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