“Here within this sullen earth
Lies Dick Tarlton, Lord of Mirth;
Who in his grave still laughing gapes,
Syth all clownes since have been his apes:
Earst he of clownes to learne still sought,
But now they learne of him they taught:
By art far past the principall,
The counterfeit is so worth all.”
The following epitaph, quoted by Fuller,
“Hic situs est cujus poterat vox, actio, vultus,