William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.
A Lovers DirgeWilliam Shakespeare (15641616)
From “Twelfth-Night,” Act II. Scene 4
C
And in sad cypress let me be laid;
Fly away, fly away, breath;
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,
O prepare it!
My part of death, no one so true
Did share it.
On my black coffin let there be strown;
Not a friend, not a friend greet
My poor corse, where my bones shall be thrown:
A thousand thousand sighs to save,
Lay me, O, where
Sad true lover never find my grave
To weep there!