Collected poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt Edited by Kenneth Muir and Patricia Thomson |
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 | Collected poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt |  |
CCXLVI
[Like as the byrde in the cage enclosed]
Like as the byrde in the cage enclosed,
The dore vnsparred and the hawke without,
Twixte deth and prison piteously oppressed
Whether for to chose standith in dowt.
Certes so do I, wyche do syeke to bring about
Wyche shuld be best by determination,
By losse off liefe libertye or liefe by preson.
The dore vnsparred and the hawke without,
Twixte deth and prison piteously oppressed
Whether for to chose standith in dowt.
Certes so do I, wyche do syeke to bring about
Wyche shuld be best by determination,
By losse off liefe libertye or liefe by preson.
Oh myscheffe by myschieffe to be redressed,
Wher payne is the best their lieth litell pleasure,
By schort deth out off daunger yet to be delyuered
Rather then with paynfull lieffe thraldome and doloure,
Ffor small plesure moche payne to suffer
Soner therfore to chuse me thincketh it wysdome
By losse off life lybertye then liefe by preson.
Wher payne is the best their lieth litell pleasure,
By schort deth out off daunger yet to be delyuered
Rather then with paynfull lieffe thraldome and doloure,
Ffor small plesure moche payne to suffer
Soner therfore to chuse me thincketh it wysdome
By losse off life lybertye then liefe by preson.
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By leynght off liefe yet shulde I suffer,
Adwayting time and fortunes chaunce;
Manye thinges happen within an hower;
That wyche me oppressed may me avaunce;
In time is trust wyche by deathes greuaunce
Is vtterlye lost, then were it not reson
By deathe to chuse libertye, and not lieffe by preson.
Adwayting time and fortunes chaunce;
Manye thinges happen within an hower;
That wyche me oppressed may me avaunce;
In time is trust wyche by deathes greuaunce
Is vtterlye lost, then were it not reson
By deathe to chuse libertye, and not lieffe by preson.
But deathe were deliueraunce and liefe lengthe off payne:
Off two ylles, let see nowe chuse the lest:
This birde to deliuer youe that here her playne,
Your aduise, yowe louers, wyche shalbe best
In cage thraldome, or by the hauke to be opprest
And which for to chuse? Make playne conclusyon
By losse off liefe libertye or liefe by prison.
Off two ylles, let see nowe chuse the lest:
This birde to deliuer youe that here her playne,
Your aduise, yowe louers, wyche shalbe best
In cage thraldome, or by the hauke to be opprest
And which for to chuse? Make playne conclusyon
By losse off liefe libertye or liefe by prison.
| Collected poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt | |