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EPIGRAMS.
Hero and Leander.
Both rob'd of air, we both lie in one ground,
Both whom one fire had burnt, one water drown'd.
Pyramus and Thisbe.
Two, by themselves, each other love and fear
Slain, cruel friends, by parting have joyn'd here.
Niobe.
By childrens births, and death, I am become
So dry, that I am now mine own sad tomb.
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
Near 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]