Thomas Howell (fl. 1568). Of Misery. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1907. The Book of Elizabethan Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

Of Misery

By Thomas Howell (fl. 1568)


CORPSE, 1 clad with carefulness;
Heart, heaped with heaviness;
Purse, poor and penniless;
Back bare in bitterness;
O get my grave in readiness;	5
Fain would I die to end this stress.

Note 1. From A. T. Quiller-Couch’s Golden Pomp, 1896. [back]