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1509–1556 England

Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden KB (25 April 1509 – October 1556), English poet, was the eldest son of Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux and his second wife, Anne Green, daughter of Sir Thomas Green, Lord of Nortons Green, and Joan Fogge. He was educated at Cambridge University.

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Is this a life? Nay, death you may it call,
That feels each pain and knows no joy at all.

Our wealth leaves us at death, our kinsmen at the grave;
But virtue of the mind unto the heavens with us we have.

When all is done and said, in the end thus shall you find,
He most of all doth bathe in bliss that hath a quiet mind.

For Age with stealing steps
Hath clawed me with his crutch.

I loathe that I did love,
In youth that I thought sweet;
As time requires, for my behove,
Methinks they are not meet.
* * *
For age with stealing steps
Hath clawed me with his clutch,
And lusty life away she leaps,
As there had been none such.

I loathe that I did love.

Thou that didst grant the wise king his request,
Thou that in whale thy prophet didst preserve,
Thou that forgav'st the wounding of thy breast,
Thou that didst save the thief in state to starve,
Thou only good and giver of all grace,
Forgive the guilts that grew in youth's green race.

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