| Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916. | | | IV. Inevitable
The Pastime of Pleasure, Cap. xli | | By Stephen Hawes (d. 1523) |
| | How he was arrested by Death
BUT when I thought longest to endure | |
| Deth with his darte arest me suddenly. | |
| Obey! he sayd, as ye may be sure— | |
| You can resist nothing the contrary, | |
| But that you must obey me naturally. | 5 |
| What you avayleth such treasure to take | |
| Sithens by force ye must it now forsake? | |
| Alas! quod I, nothing can me ayde, | |
| This worldly treasure I must leue behinde, | |
| For Erth of Erth will haue this dette now payde. | 10 |
| What is this world, but a blast of wynde! | |
| I must nedes dye, it is my natiue kinde. | | | | |
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