StoryTitle("caps", "Epitaph II: On Salathiel Pavy ") ?>
A Child of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Weep with me, all you that read", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "This little story;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And know, for whom a tear you shed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Death's self is sorry.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Twas a child that so did thrive", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In grace and feature,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As Heaven and Nature seem'd to strive", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Which own'd the creature.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Years he number'd scarce thirteen", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When Fates turn'd cruel, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet three fill'd zodiacs had he been", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The stage's jewel;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And did act (what now we moan)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Old men so duly,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As sooth the Parcae thought him one, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He play'd so truly.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So, by error, to his fate", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They all consented;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But, viewing him since, alas, too late!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They have repented; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And have sought, to give new birth,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In baths to steep him;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But, being so much too good for earth,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Heaven vows to keep him.", "") ?>
Poet("Ben Jonson", "1573-1637") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>