...frames his sorrow in somber couplets. He asks his son to speak from the place of the dead: Rest in soft peace, and, asked, say, "Here doth lie Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry." For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such As what he loves may never like too much....

...Jooson — another epitaph writer, but this time a poet too— on a similar occasion : " Rest in soft peace, and, asked, say here doth lie, Ben Jonson his...how Ralph Gittins, " bell-man and epitaph-maker," hwing been unwarily committed to prison by Sir John Bridgman, president of the marches of Norfolk,...