But woe, alas, the dust-borne pompe of earth, Made thrall to death, returnes to dust againe; All vnder heauen, that haue their beeing and breath Of nature’s gift, no longer doe remaine, Then nature doth their brittle state sustaine, The prince and swaine to death are both alike, No ods are found when he with dart doth strike. 460. For I, that whilome sung with cheerefull breath Her roiall reigne, whose like no age hath seene, Now cannot sing; but weepe to thinke how death, All pitilesse of what before had beene, Did rob poore England of so rich a queene; And if I sing, I must in my sad song, Exclaime on death for doing vs such wrong. 461. For doing vs such wrong to dim the light Of England’s virgin glorie then decaid, Which, while heauen’s light the earth’s broade face shall smite, All virgins shall admire and still vpbraid That _Tarquin_ death, with death of such a maide: For her, whose virgin blood no _Tarquin’s_ staine, Did euer taint, O death, thy dart hath slaine. 462. [Sidenote: Thursday.] That day shee di’d, which to her roiall sire, To great _Plantagenet_ hath fatall been; That day, when fates did his sad death conspire: That day when his young _Edward_ dead was seene, That day when _Mary_ left to be a queene: That day from vs did our _Eliza_ goe, That day, that tyrant death did worke our woe. 463. But why do we ’gainst death vse such complaint, Seeing not in youth, then short of yeares to crowne Her head with age, she di’de by death’s constraint, But ripe in yeares, and loaden with renowne; Made mellow for the graue, she lai’d her downe: And leauing earth that part, which earth had giuen, On faith’s strong wings she tooke her flight for heauen. Heere Clio ceast, her lute no more did sound, But in a moment mounting from the ground, She vanisht from my sight, and with her fled The place of pleasure which mine eyes had fed; With which all had been lost, if in minde, My dreame’s Idæa had not stai’d behinde. FINIS. END OF PART V. VOLUME THE LAST. Transcriber’s Notes Obvious typos have been corrected. All other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged. The table of contents has been copied from Vol II, Part I, for the convenience of the reader. Italics are represented thus _italic_, superscripts thus y^n, subscripts as y_{n}.