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Virtue in those good times that bred good men

DMI number:
29894
First Line:
Virtue in those good times that bred good men
Last Line:
Who was what all we should but cannot be
Poem Genre / Form:
Epitaph and Couplet
Themes:
Death
Related People
Author:
Charles Cotton
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Chalmers (1810) VI: 760. Cotton (1689): 492-493.
Content/Publication
Title:
Sepulchrorum Inscriptiones: Or a curious collection of above 900 of the most remarkable epitaphs [vol II] [T55764] [gb]
Page No(s):
pp.56-57
Poem Title:
On Robert Port, Esq;
Attribution:
Cotton.
Attributed To:
Charles Cotton