Death & Dying
An Epitaph on Mrs. Brigit Allibond, who dyed at Chenye about the eighteenth year of her age, and lies there buried
From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)
Here Brigit Allibond doth buried lye;
Whose too much love occasioned her to dye.
Insatiate thirst of gold! Her Servants friends
Sent him to travel, and workt' both their ends;
There he deceas'd: which sad news thrust the Dart
Of death through both her ears into her heart:
So Love chang'd Darts with Death, Love too unkind
To kill the body with the wound oth' mind.
Virgins should mourn her loss; And (by her) men
May see how Maids belov'd can love agen.
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Cokain, Aston. “An Epitaph on Mrs. Brigit Allibond, who dyed at Chenye about the eighteenth year of her age, and lies there buried.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/237/.
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Cokain, Aston. “An Epitaph on Mrs. Brigit Allibond, who dyed at Chenye about the eighteenth year of her age, and lies there buried.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/237/.
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