Thomas Carew. Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villiers.

Thomas Carew

EPITAPH ON THE LADY MARY VILLIERS.

THE Lady Mary Villiers lies
Under this stone ; with weeping eyes
The parents that first gave her birth,
And their sad friends, laid her in earth.
If any of them, Reader, were
Known unto thee, shed a tear ;
Or if thyself possess a gem
As dear to thee, as this to them,
Though a stranger to this place,
Bewail in theirs thine own hard case :
For thou, perhaps, at thy return
Mayst find thy darling in an urn.

Source:
Vincent, Arthur, ed. The Poems of Thomas Carew.
London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., nd. 76.

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