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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.

I Poems from the Egerton Manuscript

II.

III.

III Penitential Psalms

IV.

IV Poems from the Blage Manuscript

V.

V Poems from the Devonshire Manuscript

VI.

VI Poems from the Arundel Manuscript

VII.

VII Poems from Minor Manuscripts

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VIII.

VIII Poems from Tottel's Songes and Sonettes

CCXLVII.

CCXLVIII.

CCXLIX.

CCL.

CCLI.

CCLII.

CCLIII.

CCLIV.

CCLV.

CCLVI.

CCLVII.

CCLVII

CCLVIII.

CCLIX.

CCLX.

CCLXI.

IX.

IX Poems from The Court of Venus and A Boke of Balettes

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CCLVII

[For shamefast harm of great and hatefull nede]

For shamefast harm of great and hatefull nede,
In depe despayre, as did a wretch go
With ready corde out of his life to spede,
His stumbling foote did finde an hoorde, lo,
Of golde, I say, where he preparde this dede:
And, in eschange, he left the corde tho.
He that had hidde the golde and founde it not,
Of that he founde he shapte his neck a knot.