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 own name. "And now the sun was set, and the boat came ashore for us; whereupon we assembled ourselves together, and went up to take the last view of our dead, and to look unto their tombs and other things. Here, leaning upon mine arm, on one of their tombs, I uttered these lines, which though perchance they may procure laughter in the wiser sort, (which I shall be glad of) they yet moved my young and tender-hearted companions at that time, with some compassion. And these they were.

I were unkind, unless that I did shed. Before I part, some tears upon our dead; And when my eyes be dry, I will not cease, In heart to pray their bones may rest in peace; Their better parts (good souls) I know were given With an intent they should return to heaven. Their lives they spent, to the last drop of blood. Seeking God's glory, and their country's good; And as a valiant soldier, rather dies, Than yields his courage to his enemies, And stops their way with his hewed flesh, when death Hath quite deprived him of his strength and breath,