FAME. And eke it shall resound by trump of me Dame Fame. [_Here let_ MEMORY _write on the tomb_. I Memory will mind her life: her death shall ever reign Within the mouth and mind of man, from age to age again. JUSTICE. And Justice, sure, will aid all those that imitate her life. REWARD. And I Reward will punish those that move such dames to strife. FAME. Then sing we round about the tomb, in honour of her name. REWARD. Content we are with willing mind to sing with sound of Fame. THE EPILOGUE. As earthly life is granted none for evermore to reign, But denting death will cause them all to grant this world as vain; Right worshipful, sith sure it is that mortal life must vade, Do practise then to win his love, that all in all hath made. And by this poet’s feigning here example do you take Of Virginia’s life of chastity, of duty to thy make; Of love to wife, of love to spouse, of love to husband dear, Of bringing up of tender youth: all these are noted here. I doubt it not, right worshipful, but well you do conceive The matter that is ended now, and thus I take my leave: Beseeching God, as duty is, our gracious Queen to save The nobles and the commons eke, with prosperous life, I crave! FINIS. [150] This list is inserted in the centre of the title page of the old copy. [The title runs as follows: “A new Tragicall Comedie of Apius and Virginia. Wherein is liuely expressed a rare example of the vertue of Chastitie by Virginias Constancy in wishing rather to be slaine at her owne Fathers handes, then to be dishonored of the wicked Iudge Apius. By R. B. The players’ names (as above). Imprinted at London by William How for Richard Ihones. 1575.”] [151] It was well to reprint this singular production, if only to rescue it from the ravages of time. The old copy has received damage, and is fast decaying: the beginnings of the nine following lines have crumbled away, but it has not been difficult to restore the words, or parts of words lost. [152] [These Latin lines are full of false grammar, sense, and quantities, of which some are beyond conjecture.] [153] [Old copy has _like_.] [154] [Old copy, _infected_.] [155] [Old copy, _detected_.] [156] [Old copy, _Thy sufferent_.] [157] [Old copy, _feare_.] [158] The old copy gives this line to Virginius. [159] [_i.e._, The earth. Old copy, _Glope_.] [160] [Old copy gives this line to Virginia.] [161] [Old copy has _keyser to, ber_.] [162] [In the old copy this line runs thus-- “I babe, and I blisse, your health am againe.”] [163] In the old copy the word _earth_ is repeated. [164] [Old copy, _When_.] [165] The old copy reads “to _nurtue_ to be brought,” but it is probably a misprint.