A tongue, that served in foreign realms his king, Whose courteous talk to virtue did inflame

Each noble heart, a worthy guide to bring

Our English youth by travail unto fame.

An eye, whose judgement none affect could blind
Friends to allure, and foes to reconcile;
Whose piercing look did represent a mind
With virtue fraught, reposed void of guile.

A heart, where dread was never so imprest,
To hide the thought that might the truth advance;
In neither fortune loft nor yet represt,

To swell in wealth, or yield unto mischance.

A valiant corpse, where force and beauty met,
Happy, alas! too happy, but for foes,

Lived, and ran the race that nature set;

Of manhood's shape, where she the mould did lose.,

But to the heavens that simple soul is fled,
Which left, with such as covet Christ to know;

Witness of faith, that never shall be dead;
Lent for our health, but not received so.

Thus, for our guilt, this jewel have we lost,

The earth his bones, the heavens possess his

ghost.

(Surrey.)

ON SIR THOMAS WYATT.

O! dead, he lives, that whilome lived here,
Among the dead, that quick goes on the
ground;

Though he be dead, yet quick he doth appear
By lively name, that death cannot confound.
His life for aye of fame the trump shall sound.
Though he be dead, yet lives he here alive,
Thus can no death of Wyatt life deprive.

(Unknown.)

ELEGIAC POEM S.

ELIZABETHAN.

G

LIFE AND DEATH.

HE longer life, the more offence;
The more offence, the greater pain;
The greater pain, the less defence;

The less defence, the lesser gain;
The loss of gain long ill doth try,
Wherefore, come Death, and let me die.

The shorter life, less count I find;
The less account, the sooner made;
The account soon made, the merrier mind;
The merrier mind doth thought evade;
Short life in truth this thing doth try,
Wherefore, come Death, and let me die.

Come, gentle Death, the ebb of care ;
The ebb of care, the flood of life ;
The flood of life, the joyful fare;
The joyful fare, the end of strife;
The end of strife, that thing wish I,

Wherefore, come Death, and let me die.
(Unknown.)