Epitaph on Mrs Margaret Paston, of Barningham, in Norfolk

So fair, so young, so innocent, so sweet,

So ripe a judgment, and so rare a wit,

Require at least an age in one to meet.

In her they met; but long they could not stay,

'Twas gold too fine to fix without allay.

Heaven's image was in her so well exprest,

Her very sight upbraided all the rest;

Too justly ravished from an age like this,

Now she is gone, the world is of a piece.