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Ben Jonson - On Salathiel Pavy
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A child of Queen Elizabeth`s Chapel 
Epitaphs: ii 

WEEP with me, all you that read 
   This little story; 
And know, for whom a tear you shed 
   Death`s self is sorry. 
`Twas a child that so did thrive 
   In grace and feature, 
As Heaven and Nature seem`d to strive 
   Which own`d the creature. 
Years he number`d scarce thirteen 
   When Fates turn`d cruel, 
Yet three fill`d zodiacs had he been 
   The stage`s jewel; 
And did act (what now we moan) 
   Old men so duly, 
As sooth the Parcae thought him one, 
   He play`d so truly. 
So, by error, to his fate 
   They all consented; 
But, viewing him since, alas, too late! 
   They have repented; 
And have sought, to give new birth, 
   In baths to steep him; 
But, being so much too good for earth, 
   Heaven vows to keep him.
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