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The Castell of Pleasure

by William Nevill: The text of the first issue of the poem with variant readings from the reprint of 1518; Together with introduction, notes and glossary by Roberta D. Cornelius

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Pyte.

Ye may not blame all thoughe some be chaungeable
I can tell you hystoryes of louers ryght stedfast
Pyramus and Thysbe contynued very stable
As longe as lyfe dyd in theyr bodyes last

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Whan thone was deed thoder to deth dyd haste
Loue surely conioyned is a grete pleasure
Than why sholde ye all louers out of fauour cast
Syth Thysbe of Pyramus had so grete a treasure