...is is the epitaph on the insurrectionary leader Nathaniel Bacon, written by his Man. The Man clearly was no menial but a reader and a poet. His brief elegy of forty-four lines is worthy of Ben Jonson himself, and is indeed written in that great elegist's dignified, direct, and manly style: In a word Marss and Minerva, both in him Concurd For arts, for arms, whose pen and sword alike As Catos d...