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Collected poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt

Edited by Kenneth Muir and Patricia Thomson

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CLXXXIV

[Ys yt possyble]

Ys yt possyble
That so hye debate,
So sharpe, so sore, and off suche rate

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Shuld end so sone and was begone so late?
Is it possible?
Ys yt possyble
So cruell intent,
So hasty hete and so sone spent,
Ffrom love to hate, and thens ffor to Relent?
Is it possyble?
Ys yt possyble
That eny may fynde
Within on hert so dyverse mynd,
To change or torne as wether and wynd?
Is it possyble?
Is it possyble
To spye yt in an Iye
That tornys as oft as chance on dy?
The trothe wheroff can eny try?
Is it possyble?
It is possyble
Ffor to torne so oft,
To bryng that lowyste that wasse most Alofft,
And to fall hyest yet to lyght sofft:
It is possyble.
All ys possyble,
Who so lyst beleve;
Trust therfore fyrst, and after preve;
As men wedd ladyes by lycence and leve,
All ys possyble.