this scythe that mows down kings
Exempts no meaner mortal things.

(Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)(1584-1616), British dramatist, and William Basse (fl. C. 1602), British dramatist. Lines on the Tombs in Westminster (l. 35-36). . . Attributed to Beaumont and to Basse Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)

Here the bones of birth have cried,
'Though Gods they were, as men they died'.

(Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)(1584-1616), British dramatist, and William Basse (fl. C. 1602), British dramatist. Lines on the Tombs in Westminster (l. 27-28). . . Attributed to Beaumont and to Basse Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)

Know from this the world's a snare,
How that greatness is but care,
How all pleasures are but pain,
And how short they do remain:

(Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)(1584-1616), British dramatist, and William Basse (fl. C. 1602), British dramatist. Lines on the Tombs in Westminster (l. 15-18). . . Attributed to Beaumont and to Basse Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)

Bid her paint till day of doom,
To this favour she must come.
Bid the merchant gather wealth,
The usurer exact by stealth,
The proud man beat it from his thought,
Yet to this shape all must be brought.

(Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)(1584-1616), British dramatist, and William Basse (fl. C. 1602), British dramatist. Lines on the Tombs in Westminster (l. 43-48). . . Attributed to Beaumont and to Basse Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)

Lay a garland on my hearse,
Of the dismal yew;
Maidens, willow branches bear;
Say I died true.

(Francis Beaumont (1584-1616), British dramatist. The Maid's Tragedy (l. 43-48). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)

Hold back thy hours, dark Night, till we have done;
The Day will come too soon.
Young maids will curse thee, if thou steal'st away
And leav'st their losses open to the day.
Stay, stay, and hide
The blushes of the bride.

(Francis Beaumont (1584-1616), British dramatist. The Maid's Tragedy (l. 43-48). . . Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press.)

Shake off your heavy trance,
and leap into a dance,
Such as no mortals use to tread,
fit only for Apollo
To play to, for the Moon to lead,
And all the Stars to follow.

(Francis Beaumont (1584-1616), British dramatist. The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inne (l. 27-28). . . Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, The. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough, eds. (1934) Oxford University Press.)

Away delights, go seek some other dwelling,
For I must die:

(Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)(1584-1616), British dramatist, and John Fletcher (1579-1625), British dramatist. The Captain (l. 43-48). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)

For ever will I sleep, while poor maids cry,
Alas, for pity stay,
And let us die
With thee, men cannot mock us in the clay.

(Francis Beaumont (1584-1616), British dramatist, and John Fletcher (1570-1625), British dramatist. The Captain (l. 43-48). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)

Where from their pulpits sealed with dust
They preach: 'In greatness is no trust'.

(Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)(1584-1616), British dramatist, and William Basse (fl. C. 1602), British dramatist. Lines on the Tombs in Westminster (l. 21-22). . . Attributed to Beaumont and to Basse Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)