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EPITAPH ON MASTER PHILIP GRAY by BEN JONSON

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First Line: READER, STAY / AND IF I HAD NO MORE TO SAY
Last Line: WHAT SURETY OF LIFE HAVE THOU, AND I?

Reader, stay,
And if I had no more to say
But here doth lie till the last day
All that is left of Philip Gray,
It might thy patience richly pay:
For, if such men as he could die,
What surety of life have thou, and I?







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