Ay; There look like the Workmanship of Heav'n:
This is the Porcelain Clay of Human Kind.

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[Footnote 3:]

The lines are in the Epitaph

on Elizabeth L.H.

'One name was Elizabeth,
The other, let it sleep in death.'

But Steele, quoting from memory, altered the words to his purpose. Ben Johnson's lines were:

Underneath this stone doth lie,
As much Beauty as could die,
Which in Life did Harbour give
To more Virtue than doth live.

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