2Ch_35:25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they [are] written in the lamentations.
Ver. 25. And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah.] Whose worth he had fully known; and to whom himself was better known than Daniel was afterwards to Belshazzar; who knew not till he was told by his mother that there was any such man in his kingdom. Whereas had he been a Tricongiustospot, he would sooner have taken knowledge of him.
And behold they are written in the lamentations.] Whether he meant the Lamentations of Jeremiah Lam_4:1-22, or some other mournful ditty extant in those time, and known by the name of the Lamentations, {a} is uncertain. The Roman senate bitterly bewailed the death of Titus, heaping more praise upon him dead than ever they had done whilst he was alive. {b} Cardanus’s epitaph upon our King Edward VI is well known -