Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Quotes

• Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew,
  In prison pine with bondage and restraint;
  And with remembrance of the greater grief
  To banish the less, I find my chief relief.

  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

  Freedom, Grief, Remembrance

  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (Illustrated)”, p.36, Delphi Classics

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• by and by, the cause of my disease
  Gives me a pang that inwardly doth sting,
  When that I think what grief it is again
  To live and lack the thing should rid my pain.

  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

  Pain, Grief, Thinking

  1557 'Alas! so all things now do hold their peace'.

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• Alas, so all things now do hold their peace:
  Heaven and earth disturbed in no thing:
  The beasts, the air, the birds their song do cease;
  The nightes chare the stars about doth bring.

  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

  Song, Peace, Stars

  Henry Howard, “Alas! So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace”

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• Sith Nature thus gave her the praise,
  To be the chiefest work she wrought,
  In faith, methink, some better ways
  On your behalf might well be sought,
  Than to compare, as ye have done,
  To match the candle with the sun.

  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

  Beauty, Done, Sith

  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (Illustrated)”, p.45, Delphi Classics

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