Thy life, which such illusions cannot show:

For thou hast trod among those happy ones

Who trust not in their superscriptions,

Their hired epitaphs, and perjured stone,

Which oft belyes the soule when shee is gon;

And durst committ thy body, as it lyes,

To tongues of living men, nay unborne eyes.

What profits thee a sheet of lead? What good

If on thy coarse a marble quarry stood?

Let those that feare their rising purchase vaults,