Viscounts Beaumont of Swords (1622)
- Thomas Beaumont, 1st Viscount Beaumont of Swords (died 1625)
- Sapcote Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Beaumont of Swords (1614–1658)
- Thomas Beaumont, 3rd Viscount Beaumont of Swords (1634–1702)
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“Mortality, behold, and fear,
What a change of flesh is here!
Think how many royal bones
Sleep within this heap of stones,
Hence removed from beds of ease,
Dainty fare, and what might please,”
—Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)
“They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
—Bible: Hebrew Isaiah, 2:4.
The words reappear in Micah 4:3, and the reverse injunction is made in Joel 3:10 (”Beat your plowshares into swords ...”)