The Epitaph.
By way of Epitaph, thus sed
George Whither, when Fame voic'd him dead.
IF, I did scape the dooms of those,
Whose heads and limbs, fed Rats and Crows,
(And, was not thrown into the fire
Or water, when breath did exspire)
Then, here, (or somewhere else) my Bones,
Lie raked up, with Earth and Stones.
Their burial place, you shall do well
To learn from those men who can tell,
And in what mode inter'd they were;
For, I do neither know nor care,
Or, what was either sung, or said,
By others, when I there was laid;
Nor any whit, suspitious am
That, they shall be expos'd to shame