and this is the beginning of an elegy upon the Earl of Dorset,
“But is great Sackville dead? Do we him lack,
And will not all the Elements wear black?”
and this the middle,
“Thus have I blubber’d out some tears and verse
On this renownéd heroe and his herse,”
and this the end,
“In the meantime this Epitaph shall shut,
And to my Elegy a period put—”