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Collected poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt

Edited by Kenneth Muir and Patricia Thomson

Wyatt, Thomas (1503?-1542)

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CXVIII

[A face that shuld content me wonders well]

A face that shuld content me wonders well
Shuld not be faire but cumley to behold,
Wyth gladsum loke all gref for to expell;

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With sober chere so wold I that yt shuld
Speke withowt wordes, such wordes as non can tell;
The tresse also shuld be of cryspyd goold;
With wytt, and these myght chance I myght be tyed,
And knytt agayne the knott that shuld not slyde.