BEN JONSON
One name was Elizabeth,
The other, let it sleep with death:
Fitter, where it died, to tell
Than that it lived at all. Farewell.
203 (ti) On Salathiel Pavy
A child of Qtteen Elizabeth's Chapel "EEP with me, all you that read
This little story; And know, for whom a tear you shed
Death's self is sorry. 'Twas a child that so did thrive
In grace and feature, As Heaven and Nature scem'd to strive
Which own'd the creature. Years he number'd scarce thirteen
When Fates turn'd cruel, Yet three fill'd zodiacs had he been
The Stage's jewel, And did act (what now we moan)
Old men so duly, As sooth the Parcae thought him one,
He play'd so truly. So, by error, to his fate
They all consented; But, viewing him since, alas, too late!
They have repented ; And have sought, to give new birth,
In baths to steep him; But, being so much too good for earth,
Heaven vows to keep him.
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