On Elizabeth L. H.
Epitaphs
i
WOULDST
thou
hear
what
Man
can
say
In
a
little?
Reader,
stay.
Underneath
this
stone
doth
lie
As
much
Beauty
as
could
die:
Which
in
life
did
harbour
give
To
more
Virtue
than
doth
live.
If
at
all
she
had
a
fault,
Leave
it
buried
in
this
vault.
One
name
was
Elizabeth,
The
other,
let
it
sleep
with
death:
Fitter,
where
it
died,
to
tell
Than
that
it
lived
at
all.
Farewell.
Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson (born June 11?, 1572, London, England—died August 6, 1637, London) English Stuart dramatist, lyric poet, and literary critic. He is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I. Among his major plays are the comedies Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone (1605), Epicoene; or, The Silent Woman (1609), The Alchemist (1610), and Bartholomew Fair (1614). Ben Jonson died in Westminster on August 8, 1637. A tremendous crowd of mourners attended his burial at Westminster Abbey. He is regarded as one of the major dramatists and poets of the seventeenth century.