Epigram XXXV. On Hermocrates

Hermocrates made's will, when sickness came,
And made himself Exec'tor of the same:
Then he began to count, how much 't would cost
To th' Doctor and himself, for the health he'd lost;
But when he saw to how much it did come,
He'ld rather dye, then give so great a sum:
So to keep's wealth, and to save charges, dies;
His Heirs do mourn in Sack, and braveries.