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SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL; EPITAPH FOR 'LYONNELL LOCKIER' by ANONYMOUS

First Line: HERE LOCKYER LIES INTERR'D: ENOUGH HIS NAME
Last Line: "THIS VERSE IS LOST, HIS PILLS EMBALM HIM SAFE / TO FUTURE TIMES WITHOUT AN EPITAPH"
Subject(s): EPITAPHS;PHYSICIANS; DOCTORS;
Here Lockyer lyes interred, enough his Name
Speakes one hath few Competitors in Fame;
A Name so great, so gen'ral, it may scorn
Inscriptions, which do vulgar Tombs adorn;
His Vertues and his Pills are so well known,
That Envy can't confine the munder Stone;
This Verse is lost, his PILL embalmes him safe
To future Times without an Epitaph.




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