Death & Dying
Upon Doctor Playser
From Poeticall Miscellanies (1633)
Death & Dying
WHo lives with death, by death in death is lying;
But he who living dies, best lives by dying:
Who life to truth, who death to errour gives,
In life may die, by death more surely lives.
My soul in heaven breathes, in schools my fame:
Then on my tombe write nothing but my name.
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Fletcher, Phineas. “Upon Doctor Playser.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/fletcher_p/38/.
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Fletcher, Phineas. “Upon Doctor Playser.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/fletcher_p/38/.
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