| Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–47). The Poetical Works. 1880. | | | | Songs and Sonnets | | Of the Same |
| | | IN the rude age, when knowledge was not rife, | |
| If Jove in Crete, and other were that taught | |
| Arts, to convert to profit of our life, | |
| Wend after death to have their temples sought: | |
| If, Virtue yet no void unthankful time | 5 |
| Failed of some to blast her endless fame; | |
| (A goodly mean both to deter from crime, | |
| And to her steps our sequel to inflame) | |
| In days of truth if Wyatt’s friends then wail | |
| (The only debt that dead of quick may claim) | 10 |
| That rare wit spent, employ’d to our avail, | |
| Where Christ is taught, we led to Virtue’s train. | |
| His lively face their breasts how did it freat, | |
| Whose cinders yet with envy they do eat. | | | | |
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