William Shakespeare (1564-1616). Hero's Epitaph. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1907. The Book of Elizabethan Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

Hero’s Epitaph

By William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

From “Much Ado about Nothing,” Act V. Scene 3

DONE to death by slanderous tongues
Was the Hero that here lies;
Death, in guerdon of her wrongs,
Gives her fame which never dies:
So the life that died with shame,	5
Lives in death with glorious fame.