Reference
TW1145
Title
Contemporary account of the execution of Sir Walter Raleigh with his last words from the scaffold.
Date free text
c.1618
Production date
From: 1618 To: 1618
Scope and Content
“Even suche is time which takes on trust
our youthe, our Joies, and all we have,
And paies us but with age and duste,
Which in the darke and silent grave
when we have nombred all our waies
shuts up the storie of our daies
From which sad darkenes, grave and duste
The lord will raise me up I truste.”
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