Epitaph on Elias James

A Epitaph written in 1610 by William Shakespeare

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111POETWhen God was pleased, the world unwilling yet,
Elias James to nature paid his debt,
And here reposeth; as he lived he died,
The saying in him strongly verified
"Such life, such death", then, a known truth to tell,
He lived a godly life and died as well.