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Stephen Hawes
1475 - 1511

EPITAPH

O MORTAL folk, you may behold and see

How I lie here, sometime a mighty knight.

The end of joy and all prosperity

Is death at last--through his course and might.

After the daye there cometh the dark night:

For though the daye be never so long,

At last the bell ringeth to even-song.

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