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EPIGRAMS
Hero and Leander.
Both rob'd of ayre, we both lie in one ground,
Both whõ one fire had burnt, one water drown'd.
Pyramus and Thisbé.
Two, by themselves, each other love and feare
Slaine, cruell friends, by parting have joyn'd here.
Niobe.
By childrens births, and death, I am become
So dry, that I am now mine owne sad tombe.
A burnt ship.
Out of a fired ship, which by no way
But drowning, could be rescued from the flame,
Some men leap'd forth, and ever as they came
Neare the foes ships, did by their shot decay;
So all were lost, which in the ship were found
They in the sea being burnt, they in the burnt ship drown'd.

[CW: Fall]