English poem
Pryde
by Stephen Hawes (1474–1523)
O earth! of earth why art thou so proud? Now what thou art call to remembraunce; Open thine eares unto my song aloude; Is not thy beaute, strength, and puyssaunce, Though becladde with cloth of pleasaunce, Very erth, and also wormes fode, When erth to erth shall turne to the blode?