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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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Your ffolyshe fayned hast
Ffull small effecte shall tak;
Your wordes in vayne ye wrast;
Ye get not that ye lack.

I wot, as ye shall ffind,
The promys I dyd mak;
No promys shall me bynd:
Ye get not that ye lack.

Tho tyme and place I haue
To slyd yf truthe wer slacke,
Tho styll ye crye and crave,
Ye get not that ye lacke.

Bycause ye thynck yt deue,
I spek that that I spake;
And this word shalbe trewe:
Ye get not that ye lacke.

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