| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Luce’s Dirge | | By Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) |
| | | COME, 1 you whose loves are dead, | |
| And, whiles I sing, | |
| Weep, and wring | |
| Every hand, and every head | |
| Bind with cypress and sad yew; | 5 |
| Ribbons black and candles blue | |
| For him that was of men most true! | |
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| Come with heavy moaning, | |
| And on his grave | |
| Let him have | 10 |
| Sacrifice of sighs and groaning; | |
| Let Him have fair flowers enow, | |
| White and purple, green and yellow, | |
| For him that was of men most true! | |
| | | Note 1. From The Knight of the Burning Pestle, 1613. [back] | | |
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