| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| Andrew Marvell. 1621–1678 |
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| 361. An Epitaph |
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| ENOUGH; and leave the rest to Fame! | |
| 'Tis to commend her, but to name. | |
| Courtship which, living, she declined, | |
| When dead, to offer were unkind: | |
| Nor can the truest wit, or friend, | 5 |
| Without detracting, her commend. | |
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| To say—she lived a virgin chaste | |
| In this age loose and all unlaced; | |
| Nor was, when vice is so allowed, | |
| Of virtue or ashamed or proud; | 10 |
| That her soul was on Heaven so bent, | |
| No minute but it came and went; | |
| That, ready her last debt to pay, | |
| She summ'd her life up every day; | |
| Modest as morn, as mid-day bright, | 15 |
| Gentle as evening, cool as night: | |
| —'Tis true; but all too weakly said. | |
| 'Twas more significant, she's dead. | |
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