Here lies my wife: here let her lie!
Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
(Epitaph intended for John Dryden‘s wife)

John Lentell
3rd January, 1971

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Dryden by John Michael Wright, 1668 (detail)
National Portrait Gallery, London

“Happy the man, and happy he alone,

He who can call to-day his own:

He who, secure within, can say,

To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.”

(John Dryden, 1631 – 1700)

John Lentell

7th March, 1970

“……… fool’d with hope, men favour the deceit…..”

(John Dryden, 1631 – 1700)

John Lentell

14th May, 1969