Underneath this sable hearse

First Line Underneath this sable hearse
Author William Browne
Subject Mary Sidney Herbert
Date c1621
Description

Epitaph [Death, afterlife; Family].

Transcribed from A collection of epigrams. To which is prefixed, a critical dissertation on this species of poetry. 2nd ed., vol. 1, London, 1735. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Gale|CW0111110409. 

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Underneath this sable hearse, 

Lies the subject of all verse,

Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. 

Death, ere thou hast kill'd another,

Fair, and learned, good, as she,

Time shall throw his dart at thee.