Richard Barnfield, Barnfield's Poems — Poems: in diuers humoursAn Epitaph vpon the Death… (1878)
“ Here lyes the man: lyke to the Swan, who knowing shee shall die, Doeth tune her voice vnto the Spheares, and scornes Mortalitie. Two worthie Earls his vncles were; a Lady was his Mother; A Knight his father; and himselfe a noble Countesse Brother. ”
