[Begin Pg. 22, Continue Stanza # 36]
All the Gods under Olympus are constraint, / On Laches, Clothon, and Atropos to plaine. / And yet beautie, for it booth make no complaint: / For it liv'de with him, and died with him againe. //
[A backwards "P"] Others of the fowre last lynes, / of other that she made also. /
37. 11 My Sonne is gone ? and with it , death end my sorrow, / 12 But death makes mee aunswere ? Madame, cease these (mones: / 13 My force is but on bodies of blood and bones: / 14 And that of yours, is no more now, but a shadow. //
Another. /
38. 11 Amphions wife was turned to a rocke. O / 12 How well I had beene, had I had such adventure, / 13 For then I might againe have beene the Sepulcure, / 14 Of him that I bare in mee, so long ago. /
FINIS. /
[Colophon Bar of 6 rows of fairly regularly repeated oval symbols, similar to what is also at the bottom of Pg. 29] / [End Pg. 22] ///
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Epitaph, made by the / Queenes Maiestie, at the death / of the Princesse of Espinoye. /
39.WHen the warrier Phoebus, goth to make his round, / With a painefull course, to too ther Hemisphere: / A darke shadowe, a great horror, and a feare, / An I knoe not what clowdes inver[t] on the ground. / And even so for Pinoy, that fayre vertues Lady, / (Although Jupiter have in this Orizon, / Made a starre of her, by the Ariadnan crowne) / Morns, dolour, and greefe, accompany our body. / O Atropos, thou hast doone a worke per-verst. / And as a byrde that hath lost both young, and nest: / About the place where it was, makes many a tourne. / Even so dooth Cupid, that infaunt, God, of amore, / Flie about the tombe, where she lyes all in dolore, / Wleeping for her eies, wherein he made sojourne. /
FINIS. /
[Poorly printed, hard to distinguish Colophon Bar of Lilies & foliage] /
[Grape leaf symbol] Verses taken out of his Stanses, /
Hymnes, and Elegias: all dedicated or sent / to his Mistres[ ]le Diana. /
40.IN which you ask't my name (confesse Elegia. / your selfe, if't be not so) / And whether I before, had e / ["Confession" of "e / ver"] ver beene in love or no. /
[Printer's Mark of "D.i."] / [End Pg. 23] ///
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