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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 Poems from the Egerton Manuscript

II.

II Satires

III.

III Penitential Psalms

IV.

IV Poems from the Blage Manuscript

V Poems from the Devonshire Manuscript

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VI Poems from the Arundel Manuscript

VII.

VII Poems from Minor Manuscripts

VIII.

VIII Poems from Tottel's Songes and Sonettes

IX.

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

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CLXXVIII

[Take hede be tyme leste ye be spyede]

Take hede be tyme leste ye be spyede
Your lovyng eye yee canne not hide
At last the trowthe will sure be tryde,
Therefore take hede!

For Som there be of craftie kynde
Thowe yow shew no parte of your mynde,
Sewrlye there Ies ye cannot blynde,
Therefore take hede!

For in lyke case there selves hathe bene,
And thowght ryght sure none had theym sene,
But it was not as theye did wene,
Therfore take hede!

All thowgth theye be of dyvers skoolles,
And well can yose all craftye toolles
At leynthe theye prove themselfe bott foolles
Therefore take hede!

Yf theye myght take yow in that trape
Theye wolde sone leve yt in your lape;
To love vnspyed ys but a happe
Therfore take hede!