Death & Dying
An Epitaph on George Siddon of the Bull-head in Bosworth
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Death, the great Gamester, that at fairest throwes,
And surely strikes a Dye, to Tables goes
With sightlesse Fortune for our Siddons life:
But (better to prevent a future strife)
Out of her Trumpet Fame the Dice must cast,
And play for Chance: so to their sport they haste,
(As even Life and Death were at the stake)
Straight Fortune blots, and Death the man doth take,
Which the blind Goddesse, seconded by Fame,
Did here interre, and wonne the after-game.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “An Epitaph on George Siddon of the Bull-head in Bosworth.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/22/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “An Epitaph on George Siddon of the Bull-head in Bosworth.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/22/.
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