Classic Poem

Vpon the making of one friends face on the Bord, where anothers was made, the first being put out with coulor, for the second thereon to bee painted

Though my bad face defaceth my my good Friends
(His vnder mine inter'd, and mine, the Tombe )
Fortune and Art haue done it to these ends
That as two Hearts two heads should haue one Roome .

The buried Face liues with the Principall ,
In Nature , one; in Art the other is:
Then his face couerd, my Face (couering) shall
Shew, as a Monument of That and This .

If Time consume mine, as the Monument ,
T'will mcete with his then, kept from wracke in mine;
And then shall his, mine (ruind) represent,
Eu'n as through mine of yore his Face did shine
In earnest Passe time so, our Faces shall
Out-face Times Brazen face, out-facing All.