Death & Dying
An Epitaph on Queen Elizabeth
From A Poetical Rhapsody (1602), ed. A. H. Bullen (1890–91)
Eliza, that great maiden Queen, lies here,
Who governed England four and forty year;
Our coins refined in; Ireland tamed; Belgia protected;
Friended France; foiled Spain; and Pope rejected:
Princes found her powerful; the world virtuous:
Her subjects wise and just; and God religious:
God hath her soul, the world her admiration,
Subjects her good deeds, Princes her imitation.
Codex Note
By Charles Best, who added poems to the third edition (1611).
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