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 Spargimus has lacrimas, mœsti monumenta parentis,
 * Et tibi pro thalamo sternimus hunc tumulum.

Sperabam genitor tædas preferre jugales
 * Et titulo patris jungere nomen avi;

''Heu! gener est Orcus; quique o dulcissima, per te''
 * Se sperabat avum desinit esse pater.

Bellay does not deserve the less credit for these lines for having compounded them from two epitaphs at Naples, both which he probably found in Guevara's Epistles, where they follow each other. The first was placed by an aged mother over the grave of her son.

Quœ mihi debebas supremæ munera vitæ
 * Infelix solvo nunc tibi nate prior.

Fortuna inconstans, lex et variabilis œvi, Debueras cineri jam superesse meo.

The other is upon a lady who died in the week which had been appointed for her marriage.

Nate heu miserum, misero mihi nata parenti
 * Unicus ut fieres, unica nata dolor.

Nam tibi dum virum, tædas thalamumque parabam,
 * Funera et inferias, anxius ecce paro.