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Isabella Whitney
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“Such friends as have been absent long / more joyful be at meeting / Than those which ever present are / and daily have their greeting.”
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“Such poor folk as to law do go, / are driven oft to curse: / But in mean while, the Lawyer thrives / the money in his purse.”
Isabella Whitney, English poet
(1540 - 1578)
Her dates are approximate.