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| [O wauering Wo]rlde all wrapped in wretchydnes | |
| [What auales t]hy pompes so gay and gloryous | |
| [Thy pastymes thy p]easures / and all thy ryches | |
| [Syth of necessitie the]y be but transytoryous | |
| 5 | [Example but late o] to moche pyteous |
| [The puyssaunt princ]e that eche man whylom dred | |
| [Maugre thy myght b]y naturall lyne and cours | |
| [Henry the seuenth ala]s alas lyeth dede | |
| [O case Wonderfull so] ryall a kynge | |
| 10 | [Surmountyng in m]aner the prudent salamon |
| [In Wysdome in Riche]sse and in euery-thynge Richesse] Riches D | |
| [None to hym lyck in n]o crysten regyon lyck: =like | |
| [Redoubted and fered] not longe agone | |
| [Laudid and prased] his name by fame spr[e]de sprede] sprde 1509, spred D | |
| 15 | [From Worldly conten]te nowe destytute alone |
| [For henry the seuenth ala]s alas lyeth dede | |
| [Lo marke we this m]ater we wretchyd creatures | |
| [For all his kyngdom]es and tryumphaunt maiestye | |
| [For all his Ioyes his] pastymes and pleasures | |
| 20 | [He is now gone wi]thouten remedye |
| [The soule Where god] wyll the myserable bodye | |
| [Closed in stone and in] heuy lede | |
| [O what is this worl]de but vanyte and all vanytye | |
| [For henry the seuent]h alas alas lyeth dede | |
| 25 | [Come we therfor h]is subgectes and make lamentacyon. |
| [For the losse of one s]o noble a gouernoure | |
| [To god with oure pr]ayers make we exclamacyon | |
| [His soule forto guy]de to his supernall toure | |
| [For faded is the goo]dly rose-floure | |
| 30 | [That Whilome so r]yally all aboute spred |
| [Dethe hath hym m]ated where is his power | |
| [Henry the seuenth a]las alas lyeth dede | |
| Of this moost crysten kynge in vs it lyeth not | |
| His tyme-passed honour suffycyent to prayse | |
| 35 | But yet though that / that thyng envalue we may not envalue: =invalue, 'place a value on' |
| Our prayers of suertye he shall haue alwayes | |
| And though that atropose hathe ended his dayes | |
| His name and fame shall euer be dred | |
| As fer as phebus spredes his golden rayes | |
| 40 | Though henry the seuenth alas alas lyeth dede |
| But nowe what remedye he is vncouerable vncouerable] vncorable Dvncouerable: =uncoverable, 'irrecoverable'vncouerable: =uncoverable, 'irrecoverable' | |
| Touchyd by the handes of god that is moost Iust handes] hand D | |
| But yet agayne a cause moost confortable | |
| We haue / Wherin / of ryght reioys we must | |
| 45 | His sone on ####ab#### lyue in beaute force and lust |
| In honour lykely traianus to shede shede ='rout, put to flight'? See OED s.v. shed v1, 4b | |
| Wherfore in hym put we our hope and trust | |
| Syth henry his fader alas alas lyeth dede | |
| And nowe for conclusyon aboute his herse | |
| 50 | Let this be grauyd for endeles memorye |
| With sorowfull tunes of Thesyphenes verse | |
| Here lyeth the puyssaunt and myghty henry | |
| Hector in batayll / Ulyxes in polecy | |
| Salamon in wysdome the noble rose rede | |
| 55 | Creses in rychesse Iulyus in glory |
| Henry the seuenth ingraued here lyeth dede ingraued: =ingraved, 'entombed, buried' |