Death & Dying

On Sir John Roe

by Ben Jonson 1572-1637

From Epigrams (1616)

Death & Dying

What two brave perils of the private sword
Could not effect, nor all the Furies do,
That self-divided Belgia did afford;
What not the envy of the seas reached to, .
The cold of Mosco, and fat Irish air,
His often change of clime, though not of mind,
All could not work; at home, in his repair,
Was his blest fate, but our hard lot to find.
Which shews, wherever death doth please t' appear,
Seas, serenes, swords, shot, sickness, all are there.

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Epigrams, no. 32.

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Jonson, Ben. “On Sir John Roe.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/78/.

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