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5.1. Epitaphium in Henricum secundum regem mortuum & hîc sepultum.

Epitaphium in Henricum secundum regem mortuum & hîc sepultum.

REx Henricus eram, mihi plurima regna subegi,

Multiplicí modo dúx comés fui,

Cui satis ad votum non essent omnia terrae

Climata, terra modò sufficit octo pedum.

Qui legis haec, pensa discrimina mortis, & indè

Humanae specula conditionis habe.

Quod potes instanter operare bonum, quia mundus

Transit, & incautos mors inopina rapit.

5.2. Aliud.

Aliud.

TVmuli regis superscriptio breuis exorna [...],

Sufficit hic tumulus, cui non suffecerat orbis,

Res breuis est ampla, cui fuit ampla breuis.

5.3. An epitaph vpon king Henrie the second dead and heere in|toomed.

An epitaph vpon king Henrie the second dead and heere in|toomed.

OF late king Henrie was my name,

which conquerd manie a land,

And diuerse dukedoms did possesse,

and earledoms held in hand.

And yet while all the earth could scarse

my greedie mind suffice,

Eight foot within the ground now serues,

wherein my carcase lies.

Now thou that readest this, note well

my force with force of death,

And let that serue to shew the state

of all that yeeldeth breath.

Doo good then here, foreslowe no time,

cast off all worldlie cares,

For brittle world full soone dooth faile,

and death dooth strike vnwares.

5.4. An other.

An other.

SMall epitaph now serues, to decke

this toome of statelie king:

And he who whilome thought whole earth

could scarse his mind content,

In little roome hath roome at large,

that serues now life is spent.