Inscription
1626. Quis hoc, Viator, quaeris, Qui Busto jacet?/En Foggus hic est: Abundè noscis Genus./Uni qualis ille Moribus scrutarier,/Hoc exhibeat Vita, non dabit Lapis./ Sleep, quiet Corpse, expect ye happy End,/Which doth such harmless Souls as thine attend./Securer in thy Monument of Worth,/Than this of Marble: such best set us forth./For those outdare ye Threats of Fate along,/Which are composed of Actions, not of Stone./Thou we'rt thine own Tomb then; each Deed of Thine,/To make an Epitaph doth yeild a Line./Zeal, Peace, Religion; Reader, would'st know more?/Could Marbles speak, they'd say, Go ask ye Poor./I'll not display thy Ancestry nor Blood:/This was thy cheifest (sic) Honour – Thou wert good./ Herald's emblazen, for a Time, our Fame;/'Tis Virtue gives a never dying Name./But, now, be'ing gone, Thou dost us this bequeath;/To admire thy Life; and, to lament thy Death.
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