And God shall blesse you from above.

8. Epitaph for Queen Elizabeth

Here sleeps the Queen; this is the royal bed,

O’ th’ damask rose, sprung from the white and red,

Whose sweet perfume fills the all-filling air,

This Rose is wither’d, once so lovely fair;

On neither tree did grow such rose before,

The greater was our gain, our loss the more.

MARGARET, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE