THE Portraiture of Sir THOMAS OVERBURY Knight. AETAT. 32.  
 Overbury blazon or coat of arms 

His Epitaph written by himself  
The Span of my days meassured, here I rest  
That is, my body: but my soul, his ●est,  
Is hence ascended where neither Time,  
Nor Faith: nor Hope, but only love can climb,  
Where being more enlightened, She doth know  
The truth of all, men argue of below:  
Only this dust doth here in 〈◊〉 remain,  
That when the world dissolves she come again.  
Tho: Ouerburie   
Compton Holland excudit   

Those Swanlike notes, sung so inspiredly  
to thy untimely fall, prove most exact  
Line's drawn from Life: & thy swift Tragedy  
shows but thine own Souls prophecy in Act.  
Thy Name, and Virtues five: To kill thy Mould  
was all Imprisonment, and Poison could.   

But thy more-heavenly- Self, from double chains  
set free (at once) Thy Body, and the Tower,  
In that Supreme unpartial Court remains,  
where nor Ambition, Envy Lust have power:  
Redeemed from poisonous plots, from Witches charms,  
from Weston's & th' Apothecary's harms.   
W. P.