“His drinke, the running streame, his cup, the bare
Of his palme cloasde, his bed, the hard cold ground:
To this poore life was Misery ybound.”

—  Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset

Source: The Induction (1563), Line 264, p. 320

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