Nobles and Heralds, by your leave!
Here lie the bones of Matthew Prior;
A son of Adam and Eve:
Let Bourbon or Nassau go higher.
More verses by Matthew Prior
- Epigram - To John I Owed Great Obligation
- To A Poet Of Quality. Praising The Lady Hinchinbroke
- Two Riddles. -- 1710
- Written At Paris, 1700. In The Beginning Of Robe's Geography
- Epigram - Thy Nags, The Leanest Things Alive