• Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die; Which in life did harbor give To more virtue than doth live.

  Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio CXXIV, Epitaph on Elizabeth, Lady H—, lines 3-6.

  Ben Jonson
  British Dramatist, Poet 1573-1637
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1. underneath
2. beauty
3. harbor
4. virtue

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Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die; Which in life did harbor give To more virtue than doth live. by : Ben Jonson

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