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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

Luce’s Dirge

Francis Beaumont (1584–1616)

COME, you whose loves are dead,

And, whiles I sing,

Weep, and wring

Every hand, and every head

Bind with cypress and sad yew;

Ribbons black and candles blue

For him that was of men most true!

Come with heavy moaning,

And on his grave

Let him have

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!