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THE PASTIME OF PLEASURE: THE EPITAPH OF GRAUNDE AMOURE by STEPHEN HAWES

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First Line: O MORTAL FOLK, YOU MAY BEHOLD AND SEE
Last Line: AT LAST THE BELLS RINGETH TO EVENSONG.

O MORTAL folk, you may behold and see
How I lie here, sometime a mighty knight;
The end of joy and all prosperitee
Is death at last, thorough his course and might:
After the day there cometh the dark night,
For though the daye be never so long,
At last the bells ringeth to evensong.



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