Remember me, ye Shepherds, when I'm dead.

II.

Ye trifling glories of this world, adieu,

And vain applauses of the age;

For when we quit this earthly stage,

10Believe me, shepherds, for I tell you true;

Those pleasures which from virtuous deeds we have,

Procure the sweetest slumbers in the grave.

III.

Then since your fatal hour must surely come,