The Pastime Of Pleasure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBBC DEDEEBA ADADDAA BBBBFAA DAAAAGG BBBBBAA DDDDDBB| The good Dame Mercy with Dame Charyte | A |
| My body buryed full ryght humbly | B |
| In a fayre temple of olde antyquyte | A |
| Where was for me a dyryge devoutely | B |
| And with many a masse full ryght solempnely | B |
| And over my grave to be in memory | B |
| Remembraunce made this lytell epytaphy | C |
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| O erthe on erthe it is a wonders cace | D |
| That thou arte blynde and wyll not the knowe | E |
| Though upon erthe thou hast thy dwellynge place | D |
| Yet erthe at laste must nedes the overthrowe | E |
| Thou thynkest the to be none erthe I trowe | E |
| For yf thou dydest thou woldest than apply | B |
| To forsake pleasure and to lerne to dy | A |
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| O erthe of erthe why arte thou so proude | A |
| Now what thou arte call to remembraunce | D |
| Open thyn eres unto my songe aloude | A |
| Is not thy beaut eacute strength and puyssaunce | D |
| Though it be cladde with cloth e s of plesaunce | D |
| Very erthe and also worm e s fode | A |
| Whan erthe to erthe shall so tourne the blode | A |
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| The vyle carkes set upon a fyre | B |
| Dooth often haunte the synne of lechery | B |
| Fulfyllynge the foule carnall desyre | B |
| Thus erthe with erthe is corrupte mervaylously | B |
| And erthe on erthe wyll nothynge puryfye | F |
| Tyll erthe to erthe be nere subverted | A |
| For erthe with erthe is so perverted | A |
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| O mortall folke you may beholde and se | D |
| Howe I lye here sometyme a myghty knyght | A |
| The end of joye and all prosperyte | A |
| Is dethe at last through his course and myght | A |
| After the day there cometh the derke night | A |
| For though the day be never so longe | G |
| At last the belles ryngeth to evensonge | G |
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| And my selfe called La Graunde Amoure | B |
| Sekynge adventure in the worldly glory | B |
| For to attayne the ryches and honoure | B |
| Did thynke full lytell that I sholde here ly | B |
| Tyll dethe dyde marke me full ryght pryvely | B |
| Lo what I am and whereto you must | A |
| Lyke as I am so shall you be all dust | A |
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| Than in your mynde inwardely dyspyse | D |
| The bryttle worlde so full of doublenes | D |
| With the vyle flesshe and ryght sone aryse | D |
| Out of your slepe of mortall hevynes | D |
| Subdue the devill with grace and mekenes | D |
| That after your lyfe frayle and transytory | B |
| You may then lyve in joye perdurably | B |
Stephen Hawes
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