An epitaph on Mr --
Details
Type: Index
Record number: INDEX/BCMSV/1205 (Lt 78 )
Title: An epitaph on Mr --
Author: Fountain, John
Attribution: John Fountain
Date(s): 165- ?
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/99018
Description
Notes: (Here let's not)
First lines: Here let's not stay our eyes we need not care
To learn to be more mortal than we are
Last lines: In following th'example which he lent
Become ourselves his living monument
Length: 8
Verse form: Couplets
Contents: An epitaph advocating emulation of the virtues of the deceased as his best
monument