Notes. This poem is another in a series of laudatory epitaphs on Ralegh, collected in a volume devoted to accounts of his life and death.

This stone can not inclose thy fame

but hence twill break forth like a flame

and light the world with thy great deeds

some cald thee Atheist in there Creeds

whose sayings all proove most untrue

saint like from earth thy spirrit flew

into the hands of glorious Tryne1

more bright then lampe thou there dost shine

and for thy name twill live in spight

of envious tongues and all there might

Then cease brave Raleigh to deprave

and let him have a quiet grave.

Source. Folger MS V.a.418, fol. 5v

Other known sources. Ralegh, Poems 192

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¹   Tryne: Trine; the Trinity. <back>