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EPITAPH; ON MRS. MARY DRAPER by CHARLES COTTON

Poet Analysis

First Line: READER, IF THOU CAST THINE EYE
Last Line: ALIVE, OR 'TIS IMPOSSIBLE.
Subject(s): EPITAPHS;
I

READER, if thou cast thine eye,
On this weeping stone below:
Know, that under it doth lie
One, that never man did know.

II

Yet of all men full well known
By those beauties of her breast:
For, of all she wanted none,
When Death call'd her to her rest.

III

Then, the Ladies, if they would
Die like her, kind Reader tell,
They must strive to be as good
Alive, or 'tis impossible.



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