It hath no powre. For mine from his blacke herse

Redeemes not Talbot, who cold as the breath

Of winter, coffin'd lyes; silent as death,

Stealing on th' Anch'rit, who even wants an eare

To breath into his soft expiring prayer.

For had thy life beene by thy vertues spun

Out to a length, thou hadst out-liv'd the Sunne

And clos'd the worlds great eye: or were not all

Our wonders fiction, from thy funerall

Thou hadst received new life, and liv'd to be