Whether lying reastlesse in heavy bedde, or else Sitting so cheerelesse at the cheerfull boorde, or else Playing alone carelesse on hir heavenlie virginals.
ATTRIBUTION:
Edmund Spenser (1552?1599), British poet. Iambicum Trimetrum (l. 46).
PoEL-1. The Complete Poetical Works of Spenser. R. E. Neil Dodge, ed. (1936) Houghton Mifflin.