Death & Dying
Epigram 120. An Epitaph on Mr. Humphry Cumberford who died in Tamworth about the 34th year of his age, and lyes there buried
From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)
Here Master Humphry Cumberford doth ly,
Who was a Man of truth, and honesty.
A Lady Knighted him (to his good fate)
Whose Honour so scap'd nulling by the State.
Belov'd he was by all of every sort,
From Bess of Bow-Mill to the very Court.
He dy'd a maid, or (if he did do ill)
'Twas not his Nature, but against his will.
But let him rest in peace; and may we all
Wish, we may die as well when death doth call.
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MLA
Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 120. An Epitaph on Mr. Humphry Cumberford who died in Tamworth about the 34th year of his age, and lyes there buried.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/165/.
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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 120. An Epitaph on Mr. Humphry Cumberford who died in Tamworth about the 34th year of his age, and lyes there buried.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/165/.
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