Lady Katherine Paston Monument Oxnead

Needes she another Monument of Stone,

Who had so many better than this one,

All which were with noble hearts, whom her decease

Transmuted into marble Niobes:

Each Tombe was arch'd about with weepeing eyes

Whom sorowes blasts did likewise cristalize:

True Pietye, Vertue, Love, and honour'd blood,

On both sides as Corinthian columnes stood:

Three Children Angells were which did disperse

Youth, Beautye, Wealth, like flowers on each hearse:

A foliage of humane fraile estate,

The basiment of the worke did variate:

But Glory, like a Pyramid above,

The Fabricke crown'd, & reach'd y Court of love.

Done