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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79.

Salisbury

Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke

By Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

UNDERNEATH this sable herse

Lies the subject of all verse.

Sidney’s sister, Pembroke’s mother;

Death! ere thou hast slain another,

Learn’d and fair and good as she,

Time shall throw a dart at thee.