CXX Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villiers
The Lady Mary Villiers 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 5
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 their’s thine own hard case; 10
For thou perhaps at thy return
Mayst find thy darling in an urn.
Thomas Carew.