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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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I Poems from the Egerton Manuscript

II.

II Satires

III.

III Penitential Psalms

IV.

IV Poems from the Blage Manuscript

V Poems from the Devonshire Manuscript

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VI Poems from the Arundel Manuscript

VII.

VII Poems from Minor Manuscripts

VIII.

VIII Poems from Tottel's Songes and Sonettes

IX.

IX Poems from The Court of Venus and A Boke of Balettes

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CLXXXII

[The hart and servys to yow profferd]

The hart and servys to yow profferd
With ryght good wyll full honestly,
Refuce yt not syns yt is offerd
But take yt to yow jentylly.

And tho yt be a small present,
Yet good, consyder gracyowsly
The thowght, the mynd, and the entent
Of hym that lovys you faythfully.

Yt were a thyng of small effecte
To worke my wo thus cruelly,
Ffor my good wyll to be abiecte:
Therfore accepte yt lovyngly.

Payn or travell, to rune or ryde,
I vndertake yt plesawntly;
Byd ye me go and strayte I glyde
At your commawndement humbly.

Payn or plesure now may yow plant
Evyn whyche it plese yow stydfastly;
Do whyche yow lyst, I shall not want
To be your servant secrettly.

And syns so muche I do desyre
To be your owne Assuryddly,
Ffor all my servys and my hyer
Reward your servante lyberally.