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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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CCLIX

[In court to serue decked with freshe aray]

In court to serue decked with freshe aray,
Of sugred meates felyng the swete repast,
The life in bankets, and sundry kindes of play

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Amid the presse of lordly lokes to waste
Hath with it ioynde oft times such bitter taste,
That who so ioyes such kinde of life to holde,
In prison ioyes, fettred with cheines of gold.