Thomas Carew (1595?–1639?)

THE LADY Mary Villiers lies

Under this stone: with weeping eyes

The parents that first gave her birth,

And their sad friends, laid her in earth.

If any of them, Reader, were

Known unto thee, shed a tear:

Or if thyself possess a gem

As dear to thee, as this to them,

Though a stranger to this place,

Bewail in theirs thine own hard case:

For thou perhaps at thy return

May’st find thy Darling in an urn.