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Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. II. The Seventeenth Century: Ben Jonson to Dryden

Thomas Carew (1595?–1639?)

Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villers

THE LADY MARY VILLERS 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 thy own hard case,

For thou, perhaps, at thy return

May’st find thy darling in an urn.