Recreation for ingenious head-peeces, or, A pleasant grove for their wits to walk in of epigrams 700, epitaphs 200, fancies a number, fantasticks abundance : with their addition, multiplication, and division.

177. On Doctor Donnes death.

He that would write an Epitaph for thee, And doe it well, must first begin to be Such as thou wert; for none can truly know Thy worth, thy life, but he that hath liv'd so. He must have wit to spare, and to hurle down: Enough to keep the Gallants of the Town. He must have learning plenty; both the Laws, Civill, and Common, to judge any Cause; Divinity great store, above the rest; None of the worst edition, but the best; He must have language, travall, all the Arts; Judgement to use; or else he wants thy parts. He must have friends the highest, able to do; Such as Maecenas and Augustus too; He must have such a sicknesse, such a death, Or else his vain descriptions come beneath. Who then shall write an Epitaph for thee, He must be dead first; let alone for me.