Epitaph On The Late Mary Villiers

The Lady Mary Villiers lies

Under this stone; with weeping eyes

The parents that first gave her breath,

And their sad friends, laid her in earth.

If any of them, reader, were

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 theirs thine own hard case,

For thou perhaps at thy return

Mayst find thy darling in an urn.