“O happy dames! that may embrace
The fruit of your delight;
Help to bewail the woful case,
And eke the heavy plight
Of me, that wonted to rejoice
The fortune of my pleasant choice:
Good ladies! help to fill my mourning voice.”

—  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

"Complaint of the Absence of her Lover Being upon the Sea", line 1

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