Upon his flourishing estate,

Turned to soft pity of his death,

Now pays his hearse; but that cheap breath

Shall not blow here, nor th’ impure brine

Puddle the streams that bathe this shrine.

These are the pious obsequies

Dropped from his chaste wife’s pregnant eyes,

In frequent showers, and were alone

By her congealing sighs made stone,

On which the carver did bestow