So cruel prison how could betide, alas, As proud Windsor? w… - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

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So cruel prison how could betide, alas,
As proud Windsor? where I, in lust and joy,
With a King's son, my childish years did pass,
In greater feast than Priam's sons of Troy.
Where each sweet place returns a taste full sour.

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey KG (1516 / 1517 – January 19 1547) was an English courtier, soldier and poet. He invented blank verse, and along with Thomas Wyatt he introduced the sonnet to English poetry.

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And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!

Surrey, the Granville of a former age:
Matchless his pen, victorious was his lance;
Bold in the lists, and graceful in the dance.

Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew,
In prison pine, with bondage and restraint:
And with remembrance of the greater grief,
To banish the less, I find my chief relief.

So cruel prison how could betide, alas, As proud Windsor? where I, in lust and joy, With a King's son, my childish years did pass, In greater feast t… - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

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