held at Windsor Castle and a finished portrait of Lady Vaux at Hampton Court. Works Two of his poems were included in the Songes and Sonettes of Surrey (Tottel's Miscellany), published in 1557: "The assault of Cupid upon the fort where the lover's hart lay wounded, and how he was taken," and the "Dittye ... representinge the Image of Deathe," which the gravedigger in Shakespeare's Hamlet misquotes. Thirteen pieces in the Paradise of Dainty Devices, published in 1576, are signed by him. These are reprinted in Alexander Grosart's Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies Library (vol. iv, 1872). See also Canons of Elizabethan poetry References Sources This article contains text from A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland: Extinct, Dormant, and in Abeyance, Vol. VIII, by John Burke, 1831, now in the public domain External links Index entry for Thomas, Lord Vaux at Poets' Corner 1510 births 1556 deaths 16th-century English poets Barons Vaux of Harrowden Governors of Jersey Knights of the Bath Thomas English male poets 16th-century English nobility