Collected poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt Edited by Kenneth Muir and Patricia Thomson |
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CCXXXV
[What thing is that, that I both have and lack]
What thing is that, that I both have and lack
With good will grawnted and yet is denyde?
How may I be receav'd and putt aback,
Alway doing and yet vnoccupy'de,
Moste slow in that I have moste applyde?
Thus may I say I leese all that I wynne,
And that was readye is new to begynne.
With good will grawnted and yet is denyde?
How may I be receav'd and putt aback,
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Moste slow in that I have moste applyde?
Thus may I say I leese all that I wynne,
And that was readye is new to begynne.
In wilfull Riches I have found povertie,
And in great pleasure I lyved in heavynes;
In too moche freedome I lacked libertie;
Nothing but plentie caused my scarsenes:
Thus was I both in ioye and in distresse;
And in few woordes if I shuld be playne,
In a Paradyse I suffred all this payne.
And in great pleasure I lyved in heavynes;
In too moche freedome I lacked libertie;
Nothing but plentie caused my scarsenes:
Thus was I both in ioye and in distresse;
And in few woordes if I shuld be playne,
In a Paradyse I suffred all this payne.
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