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Stephen Hawes Quotes

1470–1520 England

Stephen Hawes (c. 1474 – 1523) was an English poet active during the Tudor period.

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In a slombrynge slepe with slouth opprest
As I in my naked bedde was leyd
Thynkynge all nyght to take my rest
Morpleus to me than made abreyd
And in my dreme me thought he sayd
Come walke with me in a medowe amerous
Depeynted with floures that be delycyous.

For knighthode is not in the feates of warre,
As for to fight in quarell right or wronge,
But in a cause which trouth can not defarre;
He ought him selfe for to make sure and stronge
Justice to kepe mixt with mercy amonge;
And no quarell a knight ought to take,
But for a trouth or for the comins sake.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stephen Hawes (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.