"Fair Summer droops, droop men and beasts therefore: So fair a summer look for never more. All good things vanish, less than in a day, Peace, plenty, pleasure, suddenly decay. Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year; The earth is hell when thou leav'st to appear."
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Thomas Nashe
Thomas Nashe (November 1567 β c. 1601) was an English Elizabethan pamphleteer, poet and satirist.
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