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Upon Ben Jonson

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Here lies Jonson with the rest
Of the poets: but the best.
Reader, would’st thou more have known?
Ask his story, not this stone.
That will speak what this can’t tell
Of his glory. So farewell.

Published in Hesperides
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