Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Stephen Hawes. d. 152333. An Epitaph
| O MORTAL folk, you may behold and see | |
| How I lie here, sometime a mighty knight; | |
| The end of joy and all prosperitee | |
| Is death at last, thorough his course and might: | |
| After the day there cometh the dark night, | 5 |
| For though the daye be never so long, | |
| At last the bells ringeth to evensong. |