Wisdom, Poem.

Henry Howard was beheaded at age 30, the last such execution completed on the order of Henry VIII.

The charges were probably trumped up. This is is most known poem.

The Happy Life

My friend, the things that do attain
The happy life be these, I find.
The riches left, not got with pain;
The fruitful ground; the quiet mind;

The equal friend, no grudge, no strife;
No charge of rule, nor governance;
Without disease, the healthy life;
The household of continuance;

The mean diet, no delicate fare;
True wisdom joined with simpleness;
The night discharged of all care,
Where wine the wit may not oppress;

The faithful wife, without debate;
Such sleeps as may beguile the night;
Contented with mine own estate,
No wish for death, nor fear his might.

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey