O happy dames, that may embrace The fruit of your delight, Help to bewail the woeful case And eke the heavy plight Of me, that wonted to rejoice The fortune of my pleasant choice. Good ladies, help to fill my mourning voice.
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So cruel prison how could betide, alas, As proud Windsor? Where I in lust and joy With a king’s son my childish years did pass In greater feast than Priam’s sons of Troy.
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| Birth: | 1517 |
| Death: | 1547 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Poet |
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Henry Howard was born in Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England. He was an English aristocrat, and one of the founders of English Renaissance poetry. He was a first cousin of both Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, the second and fifth wives of King Henry VIII.
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