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English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

William Browne (?)

205. On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke

UNDERNEATH this sable herse

Lies the subject of all verse:

Sidney’s sister, Pembroke’s mother:

Death, ere thou hast slain another

Fair and learn’d and good as she,

Time shall throw a dart at thee.