Who is Stephen Hawes
Stephen Hawes (died 1523) was a popular English poet during the Tudor period who is now little known.Life
He was probably born in Suffolk when the surname was common. If his own statement of his age may be trusted, he was born about 1474. He was educated at Oxford and travelled in England, Scotland and France. On his return his various accomplishments, especially his most excellent vein in poetry, procured him a place at court. He was Groom of the Chamber to Henry VII as early as 1502. According to Anthony Wood, he could repeat by heart the works of most of the English poets, especially the poems of John Lydgate, whom he called his master. He was still living in 1521, when it is stated in Henry VIII's household accounts that £6, 13s. 4d. was paid to Mr Hawes for ...
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Stephen Hawes Poems
- Epitafio
Oh mortal mío, quédate a ver
cómo aquí descanso, ha tiempo un caballero;
el fin del gozo y la prosperidad
es muerte si, con hora y poder: ... - The Pastime Of Pleasure
The good Dame Mercy with Dame Charyte
My body buryed full ryght humbly
In a fayre temple of olde antyquyte,
Where was for me a dyryge devoutely ... - The Cōuercyon Of Swerers
The fruytfull sentence & the noble werkes
To our doctryne wryten in olde antyquyte
By many grete and ryght notable clerkes
Grounded on reason & hyghe auctoryte ... - The Cōforte Of Louers
The prohemye.
The gentyll poetes/vnder cloudy fygures
Do touche a trouth/and clokeit subtylly ... - The Example Of Vertu : Cantos I.-vii.
Here begynneth the boke called the example of vertu.
The prologe.
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