| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | An Epitaph upon— | | By Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) |
| | | ENOUGH; and leave the rest to fame; | |
| ’Tis to command her, but to name. | |
| Courtship, which, living, she declined, | |
| When dead, to offer were unkind. | |
| Where never any could speak ill, | 5 |
| Who would officious praises spill? | |
| Nor can the truest wit, or friend, | |
| Without detracting, her commend; | |
| To say, she lived a virgin chaste | |
| In this loose age and all unlaced; | 10 |
| Nor was, when vice is so allowed, | |
| Of virtue or ashamed or proud; | |
| That her soul was on Heaven so bent, | |
| No minute but it came and went; | |
| That, ready her last debt to pay, | 15 |
| She summed her life up every day; | |
| Modest as morn, as mid-day bright, | |
| Gentle as evening, cool as night: | |
| ’Tis true; but all too weakly said; | |
| ’Twas more significant, she’s dead. | 20 | | | |
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