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Richard Barnfield
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“All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.”

- Richard Barnfield

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“He that is thy friend indeed, he will help thee in thy need: if thou sorrow, he will weep; if you wake, he cannot sleep; thus of every grief in heart he with thee doth bear a part.”

- Richard Barnfield

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“Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.”

- Richard Barnfield

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“The waters were his winding sheet, the sea was made for his tomb; Yet for his fame the ocean sea, was not sufficient room.”

- Richard Barnfield

Source/Notes: Epitaph on Hawkins (1595).
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“As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made.”

- Richard Barnfield

Source/Notes: Ode, l. 1. Alternately, Address to the Nightingale; historically misattributed to William Shakespeare. - Poems: In Divers Humours (1598)
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“King Pandion, he is dead, All thy friends are lapped in lead.”

- Richard Barnfield

Source/Notes: Ode, l. 23. - Poems: In Divers Humours (1598)
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“Every one that flatters thee Is no friends in misery. Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. Every man will be thy friend Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend; But if store of crowns be scant, No man will supply thy want.”

- Richard Barnfield

Source/Notes: Ode, l. 29. - Poems: In Divers Humours (1598)
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“If music and sweet poetry agree. As they must needs (the sister and the brother), Then must the love be great 'twixt thee and me, Because thou lov'st the one, and I the other.”

- Richard Barnfield

Source/Notes: To His Friend, Mr. R. L., In Praise of Music and Poetry, l. 1. - Poems: In Divers Humours (1598)
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“He that is thy friend indeed, he will help thee in thy need: if thou sorrow, he will weep; if you wake, he cannot sleep; thus of every grief in heart he with thee doth bear a part.”

- Richard Barnfield

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“As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made.”

- Richard Barnfield

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“All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.”

- Richard Barnfield

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“Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.”

- Richard Barnfield

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