Epitaph On Elizabeth, L. H.

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Title:     Epitaph On Elizabeth, L. H.
Author: Ben Jonson [More Titles by Jonson]

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.

[The end]
Ben Jonson's poem: Epitaph On Elizabeth, L. H.

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