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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
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II Satires
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III Penitential Psalms
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IV Poems from the Blage Manuscript
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CLXXVI V. Innocentia Veritas Viat Fides Circumdederunt me inimici mei
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V Poems from the Devonshire Manuscript
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VI Poems from the Arundel Manuscript
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VII Poems from Minor Manuscripts
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VIII Poems from Tottel's Songes and Sonettes
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IX Poems from The Court of Venus and A Boke of Balettes

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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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