Edward Herbert of Cherbury

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    “And what will you leave to your own mother dear,
    Edward, Edward?
    And what will ye leave to your own mother dear,
    My dear son, now tell me, O?”
    “The curse of hell from me shall ye bear,
    Mother, mother;
    —Unknown. Edward (l. 49–54)

    Only if loves fire with the breath
    Of life be kindled, I doubt,
    With our last air ‘twill be breath’d out,
    And quenched with the cold of death.
    —Edward Herbert (1583–1648)