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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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LXXVI

[Venemus thornes that ar so sharp and kene]

Venemus thornes that ar so sharp and kene
Sometyme ber flowers fayre and fresh of hue;
Poyson offtyme is put in medecene
And cawsith helth in man for to renue;
Ffyre that purgith allthing that is vnclene
May hele, and hurt: and if these bene true,
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I trust somtyme my harme may be my helth,
Syns every wo is joynid with some welth.
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