Death & Dying
Epigram 24. An Epitaph on a great sleeper
From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)
Death & Dying
Here lies a great Sleeper, as every body knows,
Whose Soul would not care if his body ne're rose.
The business of life he hated, and chose
To die for his ease for his better repose;
And 'tis believ'd when the last trump doth wake him,
Had the Devil a bed, he would pray him to take him.
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