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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
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VI Poems from the Arundel Manuscript
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[Thy promese was to loue me best]

Thy promese was to loue me best,
And that thy hart with myn shold rest,
And nat to brek thys thy behest,
Thy promese was, thy promese was.
Thy promese was not to aquyt
My ffathfulnes with such despyt,
But recompense it yff thou myght,
Thy promese was, thy promese was.
Thy promese was, I tel the pleyn,
My ffayth shold not be spent in vayne,
But to haue mor shold be my gayne,
Thy promese was, thy promese was.
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Thy promese was to haue obsarued
My ffayth lyke as yt hath deserued,
And nat casles thus to a' swarued,
Thy promese was, thy promese was.
Thy promese was, I dar avow,
But yt ys changyt I wot well how,
Tho then wer then and now ys now,
Thy promese was, thy promese was.
But sens to change thou dost delyt
And that thy ffayth hath tayn his fflyghte,
As thou desaruest I shall the quyt,
I promese the, I promese the.
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