O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far stretchèd greatness, all the pride, cruelty and ambition of man, and covered it all over with those two narrow words, Hic jacet!

Walter Raleigh (c. 1552-1618) English statesman, soldier, writer, explorer

The Historie of the World, in Five Bookes, Book 5, ch. 6, sec. 12 (1614)
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Penultimate paragraph of the work. The Latin hic jacet means "here lies," as in an tomb's epitaph.