2nd Earl of Surrey

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“by and by, the cause of my disease
Gives me a pang that inwardly doth sting,
When that I think what grief it is again
To live and lack the thing should rid my pain.”
—Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?–1547)

“I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“Then think I thus: sith such repair,
So long time war of valiant men,
Was all to win a lady fair,
Shall I not learn to suffer then,
And think my life well spent to be,
Serving a worthier wight than she?”
—Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?–1547)