Social Commentaries
To Iohn Milward Esquire
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
Though natures force for such a brothers fate
Your teares exact, yet cease to macerate
Your selfe: the water-Nymphs enough for all
Will weep, and keep a fluent funerall.
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