Death & Dying
The Epitaph.
From Divinity and Morality in Robes of Poetry ([1660?])
Death & Dying
LAdies that are young and wise,
Shall I tell ye of a Prize?
Here a Box of Beauty lies.
A Iewel hid from vulgar view,
Whose excellency if you knew,
Your eyes would drop like morning dew.
Dame-Natures Diamond, which when
She saw it was too bright for men,
Shew'd it, and shut it up agen.
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