SOURCE: Tatham, John. “On his loving friend M. John Day, an Elegie.” In The Fancies Theatre, n.p. London: John Norton, 1640.

In this poem, Tatham, a poet and playwright of the late Renaissance and early Restoration, laments Day's passing, incidentally providing evidence of the date of Day's death.

Don Phœbus now hath lost his light, And left his Rule unto the night: And Cynthia shee hath overcome The day, and darkened the Sunne: Whereby we now have lost our hope, Of gayning Day in's Horoscope. A strange Ecclipse did late arise, Where naught but blood did deck the skies; And in that fight was ta'ne away, Our thrice desir'd refulgent day; And only Phœbe does appeare, To grace the mournfull Hemisphere With her dew-ey'd Hyades, Hoping with their lights to please The angry world; but 'tis in vaine To think their light can longer raine, Since...