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.