Death & Dying
An Epitaph on Mistresse Gray, Grandmother to Sir Andrew Kniveton
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Death & Dying
LO here deare Reliques of the richest frame
Of Beauty, by whose fall the Paschall Lambe
(Her honour'd Crest) a golden Fleece hath lost,
Kept here by Death, till with a glorious Host,
Not Iason, but our blessed Iesus come,
Sayling on clouds, to fetch this Treasure home.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “An Epitaph on Mistresse Gray, Grandmother to Sir Andrew Kniveton.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/36/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “An Epitaph on Mistresse Gray, Grandmother to Sir Andrew Kniveton.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/36/.
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