"O cruel Death! how cou'd you be so unkind,
To take him before, and leave me behind?
You should have taken both of us, if either;
Which would have been more pleasing to the survivor."
"Nobles and heralds, by your leave,
Here lie the bones of Matthew Prior,
The son of Adam and of Eve,—
Let Bourbon or Nassau go higher."
"Here lies John Bun,
Kill'd by a gun;
His real name was Wood,
But that wouldn't rhyme, so I thought Bun should."
"Take time in time, while time doth laste,
For time is not time, when time is paste."
"That which a being was, it is not now;
That being which it was, it is not now;
To be what 'tis, is not to be, you see;
That which now is not, shall a being be."
"Here lies the body of Sarah Sexton,
Who as a wife did never vex one;—
I can't say so much for her on the next stone."
