When smaller Starres appeare, and give their light,

Phœbus is gone to bed: Were it not night,

5And the world witlesse now that Donne is dead,

You sooner should have broke, then seene my head.

Dead did I say? Forgive this Injury

I doe him, and his worthes Infinity,

To say he is but dead; I dare averre

10It better may be term'd a Massacre,

Then Sleepe or Death; See how the Muses mourne

Upon their oaten Reeds, and from his Vrne