John Fletcher (1579-1625). Aspatia's Song. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1907. The Book of Elizabethan Verse

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

Aspatia’s Song

By John Fletcher (1579–1625)


LAY 1 a garland on my hearse
Of the dismal yew;
Maidens, willow branches bear;
Say, I died true.

My love was false, but I was firm	5
From my hour of birth.
Upon my buried body lie
Lightly, gentle earth!

Note 1. From Beaumont and Fletcher’s The Maid’s Tragedy, 1619. [back]