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Old Chaucer, Gower, and Sir Thomas More | Sir Philip Sidney, who the laurel wore | Spenser, and Shakespeare did in art excell | Sir Edward Dyer, Greene, Nash, Daniel. | Sylvester, Beaumont, Sir John Harrington | Forgetfulness their works would over run | But that in paper they immortally | Do live in spite of death, and cannot die. | From "The Praise of Hemp-seed", published 1620. This is the earliest surviving printed reference to the death of William Shakespeare and Francis Beaumont, who had both died in 1616.