Collected poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt Edited by Kenneth Muir and Patricia Thomson |
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CCLXII
[Dryuen by dissyr to set affection]
Dryuen by dissyr to set affection
A great way, alas, above my degre,
Chosen I am, I thinke by election
To couet that thing that will not be.
A great way, alas, above my degre,
Chosen I am, I thinke by election
To couet that thing that will not be.
I serue in loue, not lyke to sped;
I loke, alas, a lytell to hye;
Agaynst my will I do in ded
Couet that thing that will not be.
I loke, alas, a lytell to hye;
Agaynst my will I do in ded
Couet that thing that will not be.
My fanzy, alas, doth me so bynd
That I can se no remedy,
But styll to folow my folych mind,
And couet that thing that wyll not be.
That I can se no remedy,
But styll to folow my folych mind,
And couet that thing that wyll not be.
I hopyd well whan I began;
And, sens the proue is contrary,
Why shold I any longer than
Couet that thing that wyll not be?
And, sens the proue is contrary,
Why shold I any longer than
Couet that thing that wyll not be?
But rather to leaue now at the last
Then styll to folowe fantasy,
Content with the payn that is past
And not couet that thing that will not be.
Then styll to folowe fantasy,
Content with the payn that is past
And not couet that thing that will not be.
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