A Serving Man’s Epitaph
A slave—oh yes, a slave!
But in a freeman’s grave.
By thee, when work was done,
Timanthes, foster-son,
By thee whom I obeyed,
My master, I was laid.
Live long, from trouble free;
But if thou com’st to me,
Paying to age thy debt,
Thine am I, master, yet.