THOMAS CAREW

320          Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villers

  The Lady Mary Villers lyes

Under this stone; with weeping eyes

The Parents that first gave her birth,

And their sad Friends, lay’d her in earth:

5                If any of them (Reader) were

Knowne unto thee, shed a teare,

Or if thyselfe possesse a gemme,

As deare to thee, as this to them;

Though a stranger to this place,

10              Bewayle in theirs, thine owne hard case;

For thou perhaps at thy returne

Mayest find thy Darling in an Urne.