Ben Jonson


Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke


UNDERNEATH this sable herse
Lies the subject of all verse.
Sidney’s sister, Pembroke’s mother;
Death! ere thou hast slain another,
Learn’d and fair and good as she,
Time shall throw a dart at thee.






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