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First Line: Tread sirs, as lightly as ye can
Last Line: He'l never haunt ye now he's dead.
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


Tread, Sirs, as lightly as ye can
Upon the grave of this old man.
Twice fortie (bating but one year,
And thrice three weekes) he lived here.
Whom gentle fate translated hence
To a more happy Residence.
Yet, Reader, let me tell thee this
(Which from his ghost a promise is)
If here ye will some few teares shed,
He'l never haunt ye now he's dead.





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