The Triumphs Over Death

R Read with regard what here with due regard, o Our Second-Ciceronian Southwell sent; B By whose persuasive pithy argument E Each well-disposed eye may be prepared, R Respectively their grief for friends' decease T To moderate without all vain excess. S Sith then the work is worthy of your view, o Obtract not him which for your good it penned; U Unkind you are if you it reprehend T That for your profit it presented you; H He penned, I publish, this to pleasure all, E Esteem of both then as we merit shall. W Weigh his work's worth, accept of my goodwill E Else is his labour lost, mine crossed, both to no end; L Lest then you ill-deserve what both intend, L Let my goodwill and small defects fulfil. He here his talent trebled doth present, I my poor mite, yet both with good intent; Then take them kindly both as we them meant. IF it be a blessing of the virtuous to mourn, it is the reward of this blessing to be comforted; and He that pronounced the one promised the other.