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Stephen Hawes

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Stephen Hawes (c. 1474 – 1523) was an English poet active during the Tudor period.

Quotes

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  • In a slombrynge slepe with slouth opprest
    As I in my naked bedde was leyd
    Thynkynge all nyght to take my rest
    Morpleus to me than made abreyd
    And in my dreme me thought he sayd
    Come walke with me in a medowe amerous
    Depeynted with floures that be delycyous.
  • For knighthode is not in the feates of warre,
    As for to fight in quarell right or wronge,
    But in a cause which trouth can not defarre;
    He ought him selfe for to make sure and stronge
    Justice to kepe mixt with mercy amonge;
    And no quarell a knight ought to take,
    But for a trouth or for the comins sake.
    • From The Pastime of Pleasure (ed. 1555)
    • Variant: for the comins (i.e. "common's") sake — some editors give for a woman's sake
  • O mortall folke, you may beholde and see
    Howe I lye here, sometime a mighty knight;
    The ende of joye, and all prosperitie
    Is death at last, th[o]rough his course and myght:
    After the day there cometh the darke nyght,
    For thoughe the day be never so long,
    At last the belles ringeth to evensong
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