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it be cutte downe/' Hauing thus bestowed his charitie amonges the people, hee retourned to his lodging, wher he lined a certaine time after, without alteration of nature; and because that nature chaunged not in his life time, he would not suffer that death should alter, or varie the same: for like as he liued a beastly and chorlish life, euen so he required to haue his funerall done after that maner. By his last will, he ordeined himselfe to be interred vpon the sea shore, that the waues and surges might beate and vexe his dead carcas. Yea, and that if it were possible, his desire was to be buried in the depth of the sea: causing an epitaphe to be made, wherin was described the qualities of his brutishe life. Plutarche also reported an other to be made by Calimachus, much like to that which Timon made himselfe, whose owne soundeth to this effect in Eng-lishe verse.
My wretched catife dayes, Expired now and past :
My carren corps inUred here^ Isfaste in grounds :
In waif ring waues of swelling sea, by surges cast^
My name if thou desire^ The gods thee doe confounde.