Our best life is to die well: for living here we enjoy noth… - Elizabeth Grimston

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Our best life is to die well: for living here we enjoy nothing: things past are dead and gone: things present are alwayes ending: things future alwayes beginning: while we live we die; and we leave dying, when we leave living.

Elizabeth Grimston

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Elizabeth Grimston (also Grymeston or Grimeston; c. 1563 – c. 1603) was an English poet.

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Alternative Names: Elizabeth Grymeston • Elizabeth Grimeston • Elizabeth Bernye Grymeston

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