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A Feast full of sad cheere

[by Thomas Churchyard]

Churchyard, Thomas (1520?-1604)

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The Epitaphe of the Right honorable the Earle of Worster that last died, Knight of the most honorable order of the Garter.

THE EPITAPH OF the Right honorable Sir James Acrofft, late Controller of the Queenes Maiesties Housholde.

Sir William Winter, Knight, his Epitaphe.

The good Maister VVilliam Holstocks Epitaph, Controller of the Queenes Maiesties Nauie.

The Epitaphe of Doctor Underhill latelie B. of Oxforde.

[The quick I fawne not on, the dead may none dispise]

The vnhappy mans deere adewe, that findes nothing good cheape but sorrowe.

A Short Prayer.

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A Feast full of sad cheere,
Where griefes are all on heape:
Where sollace is full deere,
And sorrowes are good cheape.