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After the day there cometh the derke night; For though the day be never so longe, At last the belles ringeth to evensonge.
Stephen Hawes, Pastime of Pleasure (1517). As given in Percy Society Ed, Chapter XLII, p. 207. Also in the Maskell books. British Museum (1578). An old hymn found among the marginal rhymes of a Book of Prayers of Queen Elizabeth, to accompany illuminations of The Triumph of Death. Hawes probably used the idea found in an old Latin hymn. | ||
