More Cottons yet? O let not envious Fate <br />Attempt the Ruine of our growing State. <br />O had it spar'd Sir Rowland, then might wee <br />Have almost spar'd Sir Robert's Library. <br />His Life and th' others bookes taught but the same; <br />Death kils us twice in blotting twice one Name. <br />Give Him, and take those Reliques with consent; <br />Sir Rowland was a Living Monument.<br /><br />William Strode<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-the-death-of-sir-rowland-cotton-seconding-tha/
