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SONNET: TO HIS ENTOMBED BODYE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sume for thy sake prowed monnuments will frame
Last Line: That future tymes shall eccho to the same.
Subject(s): Henry, Prince Of Wales (1584-1612)


Sume for thy sake prowed Monnume[n]ts will frame
Of Marble pillares, porfrye, Jett, and gold,
Engravinge deepe thy Titles and thy name:
Worthie because thy worthie lymmes they hold.

Others againe whose love Surmounts theire skill,
And now to grace theire arts thy bounties lacke:
In praise of thee have clothed with theire quill,
The papars whit, in lynes of mourning blacke.

But these and all that Mortalls cann envent,
Soarts not with that which is thy virtues due:
Whose glorye scales the starr-bright firmament,
Whose deere remembraunce doth such plaints renew
In these our dayes (the Trumpetts of thy fame)
That future tymes shall eccho to the same.





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