With Diligence And Trvst Most Exemplary
Did William Lavrence Serve A Prebendary
And For His Paines Now Past Before Not Lost
Gaind This Remembrance At His Masters Cost
O Read These Lines Againe: You Seldom Find
A Servant Faithfull And A Master Kind
Short Hand He Wrot: His Flowre In Prime Did Fade
And Hasty Death Short Hand Of Him Hath Made
Well Covth He Nybers And Well Mesur'd Land
Thvs Doth He Now That Grovd Whereon You Stand
Wherein He Lyes So Geometricall
Art Maketh Some But Thus Will Nature All