Collected poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt Edited by Kenneth Muir and Patricia Thomson |
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CCXXVII
[I abide and abide and better abide]
I abide and abide and better abide,And after the olde prouerbe the happie daye;
And ever my ladye to me dothe saye
‘Let me alone and I will prouyde’.
I abide and abide and tarrye the tyde
And with abiding spede well ye maye;
Thus do I abide I wott allwaye,
Nother obtayning nor yet denied.
Aye me! this long abidyng
Semithe to me as who sayethe
A prolonging of a dieng dethe
Or a refusing of a desyrid thing:
Moche ware it bettre for to be playne,
Then to saye abide and yet shall not obtayne.
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