Item genre: Epitaph

The Folger Shakespeare Library: MS V.b.198
Miscellany containing poetry, prose, and notes (1587-1636)
(author, occasional scribe)

Item 30 (Verse, Epitaph), fol. 21r

An: Epitaph, upon Cassandra MackWilliams wife to Sir Thomas Ridgway Earl of Londonderry by the Lady A: S:

Now let my pen be choked with gall

...

But follow her, with expedition

[Underneath the poem are the initials ""A: S:"".]


The Folger Shakespeare Library: MS V.b.198
Miscellany containing poetry, prose, and notes (1587-1636)
(author, occasional scribe)

Item 35 (Verse, Epitaph), fol. 22r

An epitaph upon the King of Bohemia; written by the Lady Anne Southwell

Here lies a king, and God's annointed

...

That pities not (goodness) distressed

[This poem discusses the King and Queen of Bohemia. Frederick I died in the autumn of 1632.]


The Folger Shakespeare Library: MS V.b.198
Miscellany containing poetry, prose, and notes (1587-1636)
(author, occasional scribe)

Item 36 (Verse, Epitaph), fol. 22r

An epitaph upon the King of Sweden

Malicious fate envying human glory

...

Glorious Gustavus's sad catastrophe

[ Gustavus Adolphus died in the autumn of 1632, a hero of the Protestant cause.]


The Folger Shakespeare Library: MS V.b.198
Miscellany containing poetry, prose, and notes (1587-1636)
(author, occasional scribe)

Item 38 (Verse, Epitaph), fol. 23r

An epitaph upon the Countess of Somerset

To tell the shrine that its fair saint is gone

...

To whose true worth all pens do lie in debt

[This is an epitaph on Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset, the notorious wife of Robert Carr, implicated in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury. The elegy hints at none of this scandal.]


The Folger Shakespeare Library: MS V.b.198
Miscellany containing poetry, prose, and notes (1587-1636)
(author, occasional scribe)

Item 67 (Verse, Elegy, Epitaph), fol. 73r

To the never dying memory of that lady every way worthy the Lady Anne Southwell who upon the second of October in the year of grace 1636: and of her age 63 slept sweetly in the Lord these few lines are dedicated by- Roger Cockes: a true lover and admirer of her virtues

The South wind blew upon a springing Well

...

That it may give the world perpetual light

[There are three columns of elegaic material on fol. 73r. This elegy appears in the left hand column.]


The Folger Shakespeare Library: MS V.b.198
Miscellany containing poetry, prose, and notes (1587-1636)
(author, occasional scribe)

Item 68 (Epitaph), fol. 73r

Consecrated to the memory of the honour and ornamemt of her sex, the Lady Ann Southwell

Eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Harris, Knight and

...

dedicated to her by her said dear and sorrowful husband Henry Sibthorpe

[There are three columns of elegaic material on fol. 73r. This prose epitaph appears in the middle column. It is repeated on fol. 74r (see msItem 71).]


The Folger Shakespeare Library: MS V.b.198
Miscellany containing poetry, prose, and notes (1587-1636)
(author, occasional scribe)

Item 69 (Verse, Elegy, Epitaph), fol. 73r

An epitaph composed to the eternal memory of the virtuous and well qualified lady the Lady Anne Southwell deceased the second of October 1636:

Seeking for choicest attributes to raise

...

Thou mayest give more but she deserves no less

[There are three columns of elegaic material on fol. 73r. This verse epitaph appears in the right hand column. Beneath the poem the initials ""H S"" are written.]


The Folger Shakespeare Library: MS V.b.198
Miscellany containing poetry, prose, and notes (1587-1636)
(author, occasional scribe)

Item 71 (Epitaph), fol. 74r

Consecrated to the memory of the honour and ornament of her sex, the Lady Ann Southwell

Eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Harris of Cornworthy in the county of Devon

...

dedicated to her by her said dear and sorrowful husband Henry Sibthorpe

[This is a copy of the epitaph which appears on the middle column on fol. 73r (see msItem 68). At the end of the manuscript are two flyleaves and an endpaper, both modern.]


British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 47 (Verse, Epitaph, Family record, Religious writing), fol. 53v

On the Death of my niece Grace Ash. 4 years old.

Sweet blooming bud

...

Where their chiefest part will grace.

16 lines

[A note in the left hand margin next to the rubric numbers this poem '3rd'.]

[Barbara Todd identifies Grace Ash as the daughter of Austen's sister, Lady Mary Ashe ('A Young Widow', p. 211).]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F32
Diary, Volume 4 (1706-1709)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 11 (Verse, Epitaph), p.6[rev]


Anon. (Author)

The Archbishop in a prayer composed for our success at sea, prayed God to be a rock to our ships; whereupon these verses were laid upon Sir Cloudsly Shovel's Tombstone

As Lambeth prayed so was the dire event

...

The bishops and their clerks replied Amen.

6 lines
Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F33
Diary, Volume 5 (1709-1711)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 59 (Epitaph), p.65[rev]


Anon. (Author)

The Character of King William

The head, and heart of the confederacy

...

Say all that's great and good, and he was that.

[Although this is set out in lines like verse, it is simply a collection of laudatory statements.]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F33
Diary, Volume 5 (1709-1711)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 60 (Epitaph), p.66[rev]


Anon. (Author)

Character of Queen Mary

To the state a prudent ruler;

...

What was contained within her royal breast.

[Although this is set out in lines like verse, it is simply a collection of laudatory statements.]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F34
Diary, Volume 6 (1711-1713)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 32 (Verse, Epitaph), p.35[rev]


Anon. (Author)

An Epitaph writ upon a Tombstone

Tom Christie Esquire this monument made

...

or be able to perish, or be taken away.

12 lines
Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F35
Diary, Volume 7 (1713-1716)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 13.2 (Verse, Epitaph), p.[19][rev]


Anon. (Author)

"Here lies under this same marble, dust for time's last sieve to garble"

Here lies under this same marble, dust for time's last sieve to garble

...

When truly you'll see her again.

12 lines
Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F36
Miscellany (1670-1710)
(Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 14 (Verse, Epitaph, Satire), fol.[61v]

Mock Epitaph on George Monck

Here lies George Monck

...

Writ upon his grave

12 lines
Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F37
Commonplace Book (1673-1710)
(Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 54.2 (Verse, Epitaph), p.341

On the monument

Here stand I

...

Have at you all.

4 lines

Duke Buckingham


Huntington Library: Huntington MS HM 904
Poetical Miscellany (before 1656)
Constance Aston Fowler (scribe)

Item 57 (Verse, Epitaph), fol.185r

[Attributed to "MSC".]


(scribe)Constance Aston Fowler

A epitaph on Ben Johnson

The muses fairest light, in no dark time

...

with sorrow here, with wonder, on his book

14 lines
Beinecke Library: MS pb 110
Miscellany of poems by Edmund Waller and other contemporary poets (1684)
(compiler) Elisabeth Moyle Gregor (Compiler, scribe)

Item 6 (Verse, Epitaph), fol.1r and fol.1v

[These pages are the recto and verso of the first folio following the printed poems in the Waller volume (my foliation of the miscellany begins with this as fol. 1r and fol. 1v]

Upon the storm and of the Death of Oliver Cromwell ensuing the same, by Mr Waller left out of all his Books


Edmund Waller (Author)

We must resign; heaven his great soul doth claim

...

the approaching fate of their great ruler told

32 lines

[This poem is in G. Thorn Drury's The Poems of Edmund Waller with the following differences: the title of the poem in Drury is "Upon the Late Storm, and of the Death of his Highness Ensuing the Same"; lines 11-12 in Drury are not in the MS - Drury notes that the lines do not occur in the broadside edition of the poem (Drury 162).]


Beinecke Library: MS pb 110
Miscellany of poems by Edmund Waller and other contemporary poets (1684)
(compiler) Elisabeth Moyle Gregor (Compiler, scribe)

Item 18 (Verse, Epitaph, Satire), fol.15r

On my Lord Chief Justice Scroggs, 1679


Unattributed (Author)

Here lies a Judge will lie no more

...

All this is Lord Chief Justice Scrogg

18 lines

[A note in Hand D reads "Wood's Athena, Vol.2 p.750"]


Beinecke Library: MS pb 110
Miscellany of poems by Edmund Waller and other contemporary poets (1684)
(compiler) Elisabeth Moyle Gregor (Compiler, scribe)

Item 24 (Verse, Epitaph), fols.22v-23r

Epitaph on Sir George Speke.

this is Waller too


Edmund Waller (Author)

Under this stone lies virtue, youth

...

Though young, like fruit that's ripe he fell

34 lines

[This poem is in G. Thorn Drury's The Poems of Edmund Waller with no material differences]


Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 2
Elegies (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 14 (Verse, Elegy, Epitaph), pp. xxxix-xl

An Epitaph

An Epitaph: xvth

The Consecrated Atoms treasured here

...

Exalted Still in Their Original

24 lines.

[Page xl is blank]


Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 2
Elegies (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 15 (Verse, Elegy, Epitaph), p. xli

"Here a great Patriot lies"

xvi

Here a greate Patriot lies if what the Grave

...

Shall new Life to his Martyr's Cold dust bring

20 lines.
Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 2
Elegies (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 16 (Verse, Elegy, Epitaph), p. xlii

"The precious ashes we have treasured here"

xvii

The Precious Ashes we have treasured here

...

As from its fining house more glorious Come

10 lines.
Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 2
Elegies (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 17 (Verse, Elegy, Epitaph), p.xliii

[12-line poem.]

"The consecrated atoms sleeping here"

xviii

The Consecrated Atoms Sleeping here

...

His God their Stay his deathless name their Crown


Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 2
Elegies (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 19 (Verse, Elegy, Epitaph), p. xlv

"Here a Great Patriot lies"

The Same a little Varied

Here a Great Patriot lies if what the Grave

...

His God their stay, his deathless name their Crown

414 lines.

[Poem in seven couplets.]

[The rubric seems to be referring to one of items 15 or 17, not item 18.]


Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 2
Elegies (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 20 (Verse, Elegy, Epitaph), p. xlvi

"In vain we weeping marbles do incise"

Another xix

In vain we weeping Marbles do Incise

...

It shall not in death's mansion long abide

12 lines.
Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 2
Elegies (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 21 (Verse, Elegy, Epitaph), p. xlvi

"Ye sons of England whose unquenched flame"

xx

Ye sons of England whose unquenched flame

...

Where Liberty sleeps in her Champions grave

10 lines.
Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 2
Elegies (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 22 (Verse, Elegy, Epitaph), p. xlvii

"This monument doth not commemorate"

xxi

This Monument doth not Commemorate

...

Even There yet no Inglorious period have

14 lines.
Firestone Library, Princeton University: RTC01 no. 62
Book of Remembrance (1638-9)
Elizabeth Isham (Author, scribe)

Item 2.3 (Verse, Epitaph), fol. 30v

Here she who with afflictions tried and tried

...

her Soul soon hatched flew to the Saints above

4 lines

[Isham here records the epitaph made for her sister Judith by her brother Justinian.]


William Andrews Clark Memorial Library: MS L6815 M3 C734
Miscellany of works by Anne and Roger Ley, including Anne Ley's commonplace book (1623-1668)
Anne Ley (Compiler, Author, Scribe)

Item 25 (Verse, Epitaph), fol. 110v


Anonymous (Author)
Roger Ley (Scribe)

Upon her gravestone in the Church yard of S Leonard Shoreditch

If knowledge and a godly life

...

Whose body lies beneath this stone

6

[This 6-line epitaph is preceded by the biographical note: 'Here lieth the bodie of Thomas Norman and Anne his wife and of Anne Ley their daughter wife to Roger Ley Curate of this parish. Vpon the said Anne Ley who was buried October 22 1641']


Cambridge University Library: MS Additional 8460
Miscellany in verse and prose (c.1665-1714. Elizabeth Lyttelton probably began compiling this manuscript in the mid to late 1660s, when she is first mentioned in her father's letters as helping him organize his papers (Keynes, Works, IV, p. 29, letter 21 (13 August 1668)). She might have continued until she gave the manuscript to her cousin Edward Tenison in 1714 (p. 174), though the latest dateable item in the miscellany is 1710 (see Item 6.25).)
Elizabeth Lyttelton (author, scribe)

Item 6.1 (Verse, Epitaph), p. 103 rev.

Sacred to the memory of the Lady Dorothy Brown of Norwich, she died Feb. 24. 1685 in the sixty third year of her age

Reader! thou mayest believe this pious stone

...

To be adorned with an immortal crown

[This is an epitaph in memory of Elizabeth Lyttelton's mother, Dorothy Browne. Geoffrey Keynes notes that this epitaph is still on her tomb in St. Peter's Church, Norwich (""Daughter"", p. 470).]

12 lines
Cambridge University Library: MS Additional 8460
Miscellany in verse and prose (c.1665-1714. Elizabeth Lyttelton probably began compiling this manuscript in the mid to late 1660s, when she is first mentioned in her father's letters as helping him organize his papers (Keynes, Works, IV, p. 29, letter 21 (13 August 1668)). She might have continued until she gave the manuscript to her cousin Edward Tenison in 1714 (p. 174), though the latest dateable item in the miscellany is 1710 (see Item 6.25).)
Elizabeth Lyttelton (author, scribe)

Item 6.14 (Verse, Epitaph), p. 80 rev.


Thomas Heywood (Author)
William Browne (Author)

An epitaph upon Queen Elizabeth

Underneath this sable hearse

...

Time will make an end of thee

[This is a version of the first stanza of Thomas Heywood's ""An Epitaph to the Renowned Queene Elizabeth"", appended to The life and death of Queene Elizabeth, 1639, sig. C8r (see Item 2.7-2.7.3 for other extracts probably also from this printed book). Heywood's poem is itself a reworking of William Browne's epitaph ""On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke"". (I am grateful to Gillian Wright for this information). Lyttelton's version differs somewhat from the printed Heywood text: in line three the printed text has ""Womens glory"" while Lyttelton has " "Europes wonder"". Another significant difference is line five: in the printed text it reads ""Faire, and good, and learn'd as she"", while in Lyttelton's version it is ""So Wise so Chast so good as shee"".]

6 lines
Cambridge University Library: MS Additional 8460
Miscellany in verse and prose (c.1665-1714. Elizabeth Lyttelton probably began compiling this manuscript in the mid to late 1660s, when she is first mentioned in her father's letters as helping him organize his papers (Keynes, Works, IV, p. 29, letter 21 (13 August 1668)). She might have continued until she gave the manuscript to her cousin Edward Tenison in 1714 (p. 174), though the latest dateable item in the miscellany is 1710 (see Item 6.25).)
Elizabeth Lyttelton (author, scribe)

Item 6.38 (Verse, Epitaph), p. 63 rev.

The epitaph upon that blessed martyr Walter Mill at St Andrews in Scotland

No impious acts, or crimes my life had stained

...

The source of life to others caused my death

[The epitaph is written first in Latin (4 lines), and then translated into English under the heading, ""in English thus"" (4 lines). The epitaph comes from Foxe's Book of Martyrs, specifically The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, ed. by George Townsend, 8 vols (New York: AMS Press, 1965), V, p. 647. Foxe prints only the Latin version of the epitaph, raising the possibility that Lyttelton translated it herself into English. See Items 6.5-6.7 for other extracts from this source.]

Latin, with English translation8 lines
Cambridge University Library: MS Additional 8460
Miscellany in verse and prose (c.1665-1714. Elizabeth Lyttelton probably began compiling this manuscript in the mid to late 1660s, when she is first mentioned in her father's letters as helping him organize his papers (Keynes, Works, IV, p. 29, letter 21 (13 August 1668)). She might have continued until she gave the manuscript to her cousin Edward Tenison in 1714 (p. 174), though the latest dateable item in the miscellany is 1710 (see Item 6.25).)
Elizabeth Lyttelton (author, scribe)

Item 6.39 (Verse, Epitaph), p. 62 rev.


John Donne (Author)

An hymn to God the father

Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun

...

I fear no more

[This John Donne poem has been attributed to ""J Donne"".]

18 linesLatin and English
Cambridge University Library: MS Additional 8460
Miscellany in verse and prose (c.1665-1714. Elizabeth Lyttelton probably began compiling this manuscript in the mid to late 1660s, when she is first mentioned in her father's letters as helping him organize his papers (Keynes, Works, IV, p. 29, letter 21 (13 August 1668)). She might have continued until she gave the manuscript to her cousin Edward Tenison in 1714 (p. 174), though the latest dateable item in the miscellany is 1710 (see Item 6.25).)
Elizabeth Lyttelton (author, scribe)

Item 6.40 (Verse, Epitaph), pp. 61-60 rev.


Walter Ralegh (Author)
Elizabeth Lyttelton (Author?)

A Christian paraphrase on those verses Like hermit poor, etc.

Like Christian well resolved in place obscure

...

To let out life when God and nature will

[Sir Walter Ralegh wrote the well-known poem "Like hermit poor", which was set to music by Henry Lawes. This Christian paraphrase of the poem might have been written by Lyttelton and might also have been intended to be sung, given its repeated chorus. For other items written by or about Sir Walter Ralegh see msItems 4, 6.47, and 6.48.]

18 lines
Cambridge University Library: MS Additional 8460
Miscellany in verse and prose (c.1665-1714. Elizabeth Lyttelton probably began compiling this manuscript in the mid to late 1660s, when she is first mentioned in her father's letters as helping him organize his papers (Keynes, Works, IV, p. 29, letter 21 (13 August 1668)). She might have continued until she gave the manuscript to her cousin Edward Tenison in 1714 (p. 174), though the latest dateable item in the miscellany is 1710 (see Item 6.25).)
Elizabeth Lyttelton (author, scribe)

Item 6.41 (Verse, Epitaph), p. 60 rev.


Samuel Sheppard (Author)

Epitaph on Arthur Capel

Here virtue, valour, charity, and all

...

How Capell suffered for his royal king

[The first four lines of this poem are Samuel Sheppard's epitaph on the royalist hero, Arthur Capel. Lyttelton's version has an additional couplet at the end.]

6 lines
Cambridge University Library: MS Additional 8460
Miscellany in verse and prose (c.1665-1714. Elizabeth Lyttelton probably began compiling this manuscript in the mid to late 1660s, when she is first mentioned in her father's letters as helping him organize his papers (Keynes, Works, IV, p. 29, letter 21 (13 August 1668)). She might have continued until she gave the manuscript to her cousin Edward Tenison in 1714 (p. 174), though the latest dateable item in the miscellany is 1710 (see Item 6.25).)
Elizabeth Lyttelton (author, scribe)

Item 6.47 (Verse, Epitaph), p. 49 rev.


Walter Ralegh (Author)

Sir Walter Raleigh, a man of such admirable parts that he is more to be admired than sufficiently praised, this following epitaph was made by himself

Even such is time, which takes in trust

...

The Lord shall raise me up I trust

[For other pieces written by or about Sir Walter Ralegh see Items 4, 6.40, and 6.48.]

8 lines
Cambridge University Library: MS Additional 8460
Miscellany in verse and prose (c.1665-1714. Elizabeth Lyttelton probably began compiling this manuscript in the mid to late 1660s, when she is first mentioned in her father's letters as helping him organize his papers (Keynes, Works, IV, p. 29, letter 21 (13 August 1668)). She might have continued until she gave the manuscript to her cousin Edward Tenison in 1714 (p. 174), though the latest dateable item in the miscellany is 1710 (see Item 6.25).)
Elizabeth Lyttelton (author, scribe)

Item 6.48 (Verse, Epitaph), p. 49 rev.

By these following you may see what account the world made of him

If spite be pleased, whenas her object's dead

...

And strike the two first blind, the other dumb

[This is another epitaph on Ralegh. For other items written by or about Sir Walter Ralegh see Items 4, 6.40, and 6.47.]

6 lines
Cambridge University Library: MS Additional 8460
Miscellany in verse and prose (c.1665-1714. Elizabeth Lyttelton probably began compiling this manuscript in the mid to late 1660s, when she is first mentioned in her father's letters as helping him organize his papers (Keynes, Works, IV, p. 29, letter 21 (13 August 1668)). She might have continued until she gave the manuscript to her cousin Edward Tenison in 1714 (p. 174), though the latest dateable item in the miscellany is 1710 (see Item 6.25).)
Elizabeth Lyttelton (author, scribe)

Item 6.49 (Verse, Epitaph), p. 48 rev.


Aphra Behn (Author?)

Epitaph on William Fairfax

This little, silent, gloomy monument

...

Spread their gay wings before the throne and smile

[This poem commemorates the death of Lyttelton's nephew, William Fairfax, who died on 27 July 1684 (Keynes, Commonplace Book, p. 17. Keynes notes that the date of Fairfax's death and the epitaph are engraved on a tablet in the church of Hurst in Berkshire). It also appeared in print in Aphra Behn's Miscellanies, 1685, where it was attributed to ""Mrs. A.B."" and headed ""Epitaph on the Tombstone of a Child, the Last of Seven that died before"". Lyttelton, or a later reader, crossed out the middle lines of the poem: ""wanton as unfledg'd Cupids, ere there Charmes/ had learnt the litle Arts of doeing harmes"".]

14 lines
Cambridge University Library: MS Additional 8460
Miscellany in verse and prose (c.1665-1714. Elizabeth Lyttelton probably began compiling this manuscript in the mid to late 1660s, when she is first mentioned in her father's letters as helping him organize his papers (Keynes, Works, IV, p. 29, letter 21 (13 August 1668)). She might have continued until she gave the manuscript to her cousin Edward Tenison in 1714 (p. 174), though the latest dateable item in the miscellany is 1710 (see Item 6.25).)
Elizabeth Lyttelton (author, scribe)

Item 6.50 (Verse, Epitaph), pp. 47-46 rev.


Richard Corbett (Author)

King James his epitaph by Bishop Corbet

Those that have eyes awake and weep

...

King James the peaceful and the just

[This poem was written by Richard Corbett. See also Items 6.45 and 6.46.]

28 lines

[At this point the reversed text finishes. For backmatter see Item 3.]


Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre: Pre-1700 MS 151
Dering Manuscript of Katherine Philips's Poetry (1662-1663)
Katherine Philips (Author)

Item 3 (Verse, Epitaph), p. 2


Katherine Philips (Author)
Edward Dering (Scribe)

Engraved on Mr John Collier's tombstone at Beddington

Here what remains of him doth lie

...

But what beyond our love or wit

8
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre: Pre-1700 MS 151
Dering Manuscript of Katherine Philips's Poetry (1662-1663)
Katherine Philips (Author)

Item 4 (Verse, Epitaph), p. 2


Katherine Philips (Author)
Edward Dering (Scribe)

on Little Regina Collier. on the same Tombstone

Virtue's blossom, Beauty's bud

...

Her wages got without her pains

6
National Library of Wales: MS 776B
The 'Rosania Manuscript' of Katherine Philips's Works (1664-1667)
Katherine Philips (Author)
Polexander (Scribe)

Item 61 (Verse, Epitaph), pp. 335[337]-336[338]


Katherine Philips (Author)
Polexander (Scribe)

EPITAPH. On my honour'd Mother-in-Law. Mrs Phillips of Portheynon in Cardiganshire, who dy'd January 1st Anno 1662/3

Reader stay, it is but Just

...

To its ruin'd heaps a Tomb

38 lines
National Library of Wales: MS 776B
The 'Rosania Manuscript' of Katherine Philips's Works (1664-1667)
Katherine Philips (Author)
Polexander (Scribe)

Item 67 (Verse, Epitaph), p. 344[346]


Katherine Philips (Author)
Polexander (Scribe)

EPITAPH ON HECTOR PHILLIPS. at St. Sith's Church

What on Earth deserves our Trust?

...

Bury'd in a morning Cloud

22 lines
National Library of Wales: MS 776B
The 'Rosania Manuscript' of Katherine Philips's Works (1664-1667)
Katherine Philips (Author)
Polexander (Scribe)

Item 74 (Verse, Epitaph), p. 354[356]


Katherine Philips (Author)
Polexander (Scribe)

Engraven on Mr John Collier's Tombstone at Beddington

Here what remains of him doth lie

...

But what's beyond. our love & wit

8 lines

[

The scribe spells Beddington "Bedlington".

]


National Library of Wales: MS 776B
The 'Rosania Manuscript' of Katherine Philips's Works (1664-1667)
Katherine Philips (Author)
Polexander (Scribe)

Item 75 (Verse, Epitaph), p. 354[356]


Katherine Philips (Author)
Polexander (Scribe)

On Little Regina Collier, on the same Tombstone

Virtue's Blossom, Beauty's Bud

...

Her wages got, without her pains

6 lines
National Library of Wales: MS 775B
Autograph Manuscript of Katherine Philips's Poetry (1650-1658)
Katherine Philips (Author, Scribe)

Item 5 (Verse, Epitaph), p. 5


Katherine Philips (Author, Scribe)

Engraved on Mr John Collier's Tombstone at Beddington

Here what remains of him does lie

...

But what's beyond our love or wit

8 lines
National Library of Wales: MS 775B
Autograph Manuscript of Katherine Philips's Poetry (1650-1658)
Katherine Philips (Author, Scribe)

Item 6 (Verse, Epitaph), p. 7


Katherine Philips (Author, Scribe)

On little Regina Collier on the same Tombstone

Virtue's blossom, beauty's bud

...

Her wages got without her pains

6 lines
National Library of Wales: MS 775B
Autograph Manuscript of Katherine Philips's Poetry (1650-1658)
Katherine Philips (Author, Scribe)

Item 43 (Verse, Epitaph), pp. 131, 133


Katherine Philips (Author, Scribe)

Epitaph on Mr John Lloyd of Kilrhewy in Pembrokeshire (who dy'd July the 1656) inscrib'd on his Monument in Kilgarron (in the person of his wife)

Preserve thou sad, & sole Trustee

...

To follow him, & pity me

20 lines

[

The scribe has left a gap for the date of death, not inserted.

]