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[Patience, though I have not]
Patience, though I have not
The thing that I require,
I must of force, god wot,
Forbere my moost desire:
For no ways can I fynde
To saile against the wynde.
The thing that I require,
I must of force, god wot,
Forbere my moost desire:
For no ways can I fynde
To saile against the wynde.
Patience, do what they will
To worke me woo or spite,
I shall content me still
To thyncke boeth day and nyte,
To thyncke and hold my peace,
Syns there is no redresse.
To worke me woo or spite,
I shall content me still
To thyncke boeth day and nyte,
To thyncke and hold my peace,
Syns there is no redresse.
Patience, withouten blame,
For I offended nought;
I knowe they knowe the same,
Though they have chaunged their thought.
Was ever thought so moved
To hate that it haith loved?
For I offended nought;
I knowe they knowe the same,
Though they have chaunged their thought.
Was ever thought so moved
To hate that it haith loved?
Patience of all my harme,
For fortune is my foo;
Patience must be the charme
To hele me of my woo:
Patience, withoute offence,
Is a painfull patience.
For fortune is my foo;
Patience must be the charme
To hele me of my woo:
Patience, withoute offence,
Is a painfull patience.
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