Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die; Which in life did harbour give To more virtue than doth live.
Ben Jonson
Life
Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die; Which in life did harbour give To more virtue than doth live.
Ben Jonson
Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.