Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: Weelkes was friends with the madrigalist Thomas Morley who died in 1602 , when Weelkes was in his mid-twenties ( Weelkes commemorated his death in a madrigal-form anthem titled A Remembrance of my Friend Thomas Morley , also known as `` Death hath Deprived Me '' ) .
Simplified: Weelkes was friends with the madrigalist Thomas Morley . When Morley died in 1602 , Weelkes wrote an anthem called A Remembrance of my Friend Thomas Morley , ( also known as `` Death hath Deprived Me '' . )