| John Dryden (1631–1700). The Poems of John Dryden. 1913. | | | | Elegies and Epitaphs | | On Mrs. Margaret Paston, of Barningham, in Norfolk |
| | | SO 1 fair, so young, so innocent, so sweet, | |
| So ripe a Judgment, and so rare a Wit, | |
| Require at least an Age in one to meet. | |
| In her they met; but long they could not stay, | |
| ’T was Gold too fine to fix without Allay. | 5 |
| Heav’n’s Image was in her so well exprest, | |
| Her very sight upbraided all the rest; | |
| Too justly ravish’d from an Age like this, | |
| Now she is gone, the World is of a Piece. | |
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