Epigram 41: Macanas Epitaph

Heere lies the Steward of the Poets God,
Who whilst on earth his loued life abod,
Apollo's Daughters, and the heires of Ioue
His memorable bounty did approue:
His life, was life to Poets, and his Death
Bereau'd the Muses of celestiall breath.
Had Phoebus fir'd him from the lofty skies,
That Phaenix like another might arise
From our his odoriff'rus sacred embers,
Whose lou'd liues losse, poore Poetry remembers.