Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?

Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?

With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.

With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.

O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!

O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!

But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall,
Dropped off gorged from a read more

But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall,
Dropped off gorged from a scheme which left us flaccid and
drained.

Empty Chambers make foolish maides.

Empty Chambers make foolish maides.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

It will please though ten times repeated.

It will please though ten times repeated.

He that lives most dies most.

He that lives most dies most.

For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.

For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.