Death & Dying
Epigram 22. An Epitaph on my dear sister the Lady Boteler, who deceased about the 34th year of her Age
From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)
Here lies the Lady Boteler, who ran through
Two States of Life, and both of them so true
And just were known to all that knew her, that
Her, her survivers all may imitate.
The Virgin, and the matrimonial life
She blest with her example: And so rife
Her memory doth flourish, that it can
Not die, while there on earth lives one good man.
Cokaine her own name was: Elveston gave
Her Life, Tutburie death, Ashbourn a Grave.
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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 22. An Epitaph on my dear sister the Lady Boteler, who deceased about the 34th year of her Age.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/65/.
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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 22. An Epitaph on my dear sister the Lady Boteler, who deceased about the 34th year of her Age.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/65/.
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