Where is become thy wonted happy state?

Alas, wherein through many a hill and dale,

Through pleasant woods, and many an unknown way,

Along the banks of many silver streams,

Thou with him yodest; and with him did scale

The craggy rocks of th'Alps and Appennine?

Still with the Muses sporting, while those beams

Of virtue kindled in his noble breast;

Which after did so gloriously forth shine?

But, woe is me, they now yquenched are