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History of English Literature Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 43 — BOOK II.—THE RENAISSANCE (Continued)

Henri Van Laun translation

"O eloquent, just and mightie Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised; thou hast drawne together all the farre stretched greatnesse, all the pride, crueltie, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet."

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